Rocky Ford Fire
The Rocky Ford Fire was reported on July 9, 2016 in Adams County, Washington and burned 1,951 acres. It was declared out on July 26, 2016.
- Size
- 1,951 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 9, 2016
- Personnel
- 10
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 47.256, -118.246.
The incident
- Size
- 1,951 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 9, 2016 at 2:13 PM PDT
- Contained
- July 11, 2016 at 8:23 PM PDT
- Controlled
- July 13, 2016 at 2:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- July 26, 2016 at 8:55 AM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Adams County
- State
- Washington
- Protecting agency
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 10
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $400,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-WASPD-000430
- IRWIN identifier
- DB60815F-2EDF-4EEA-86BF-DB309ED0D4C6
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Ritzville, WA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Ritzville, WA11 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Davenport, WA28 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Medical Lake, WA34 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Cheney, WA35 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Fairchild Air Force Base, WA38 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Airway Heights, WA41 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
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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 August 9, 2016 at 1:48 PM PDT. Identifier 2016-WASPD-000430.