Monument Hill Fire
The Monument Hill Fire was reported on August 16, 2017 in Grant County, Washington and burned 5,000 acres. It is 100 percent contained.
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 16, 2017
- Personnel
- 120
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 47.314, -119.737.
The incident
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 16, 2017 at 8:19 PM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 5 miles NE of Quincy, WA
- County
- Grant County
- State
- Washington
- Nearest city reported
- Quincy
- Protecting agency
- SP
- Land ownership at origin
- BLM
- Personnel assigned
- 120
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $598,300
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-WAWFS-000409
- IRWIN identifier
- D1C38FBA-3C3C-4246-91A8-A08D724202B7
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Quincy, WA covers the area today.
Nearby
- Quincy, WA8 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Ephrata, WA9 miles east of the fire’s origin
- Soap Lake, WA13 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Moses Lake North, WA21 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Cascade Valley, WA23 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Moses Lake, WA25 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
Washington wildfires today Wildfires of 2017 All current fires
Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated April 11, 2018 at 10:39 AM PDT. Identifier 2017-WAWFS-000409.