Wildfires of 2012

Unnamed Fire

2012Yakima County, WashingtonWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,615 acres in Yakima County, Washington, in 2012. It was discovered on July 19, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
4,615 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2012
Cause
Human

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 4,569 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.526, -119.884.

The record

Reported final size
4,615 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,569 acres
Discovered
July 19, 2012, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Washington
County
Yakima County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Spokane District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
WASPD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2012-WASPD-500245
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2012_WA-SPD-0505245

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Washington in 201212

FireAcresStartCause
Table Mountain Complex43,874Sep 15, 2012Natural
Taylor Bridge Fire23,500Aug 13, 2012Human
Apache Pass Fire23,324Sep 9, 2012Natural
Cascade Creek Fire20,296Sep 9, 2012Natural
Peavine Fire20,000
Barker Canyon Complex17,049Sep 8, 2012Natural
St Marys Mission Road Fire16,853Oct 2, 2012Human
Barker Canyon Fire15,798
Byrd Fire14,164Sep 9, 2012Natural
Crane Road Fire12,500Aug 1, 2012Human
Buffalo Lake Road Fire11,299Aug 14, 2012Natural
Canyon Fire7,548Sep 8, 2012Natural

Every fire of 2012 Washington fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.