Black Canyon Fire
The Black Canyon Fire was reported on August 14, 2015 in Okanogan County, Washington and burned 11,506 acres. It was declared out on January 14, 2016. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 11,506 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 14, 2015
- Personnel
- 49
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 48.051, -120.113.
The incident
- Size
- 11,506 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 14, 2015 at 9:45 AM PDT
- Contained
- November 5, 2015 at 9:30 AM PST
- Declared out
- January 14, 2016 at 12:00 PM PST
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Okanogan County
- State
- Washington
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 49
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-WAOWF-000663
- IRWIN identifier
- 86BF0CAA-D60C-47C3-B737-72830C41151C
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 10, from August 14, 2015 to October 9, 2015. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 49 on September 25, 2015
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- People evacuated, at the most
- 256
- Cost reported by the teams
- $4 million, in 2015 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 4,633 acres, on August 19, 2015.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 14, 2015 | 2,000 | |
| Aug 15, 2015 | 3,000 | +1,000 |
| Aug 16, 2015 | 3,449 | +449 |
| Aug 17, 2015 | 4,667 | +1,218 |
| Aug 18, 2015 | 6,761 | +2,094 |
| Aug 19, 2015 | 11,394 | +4,633 |
| Aug 20, 2015 | 11,394 | 0 |
| Sep 25, 2015 | 11,506 | |
| Oct 2, 2015 | 11,506 | |
| Oct 9, 2015 | 11,506 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Pateros, WA covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated January 14, 2016 at 5:02 PM PST. Identifier 2015-WAOWF-000663.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.