North Brownstown 3 Fire
The North Brownstown 3 Fire was reported on August 16, 2020 in Yakima County, Washington and burned 5,981 acres. It was declared out on September 21, 2020. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 5,981 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 16, 2020
- Personnel
- 18
Map
Perimeter mapped August 16, 2020 at 8:30 PM PDT, 5,967 acres (gps-driven). Point of origin 46.487, -120.617.
The incident
- Size
- 5,981 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 16, 2020 at 2:30 PM PDT
- Contained
- August 22, 2020 at 11:30 AM PDT
- Controlled
- September 7, 2020 at 11:59 AM PDT
- Declared out
- September 21, 2020 at 8:11 AM PDT
- Cause
- Human
- Location
- SOUTH OF WILEY CITY ON AHTANUM RIDGE
- County
- Yakima County
- State
- Washington
- Nearest city reported
- SOUTH OF WILEY CITY
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Jurisdiction
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- BIA
- Personnel assigned
- 18
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $500,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-WAYAA-000087
- IRWIN identifier
- 85E7C13B-5653-4723-BD25-603B1E8A2DC4
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 6, from August 16, 2020 to August 22, 2020. 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
- 55 on August 16, 2020
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $500,000, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Monitor
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 3,971 acres, on August 17, 2020.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2020 | 2,000 | |
| Aug 17, 2020 | 5,971 | +3,971 |
| Aug 18, 2020 | 5,981 | +10 |
| Aug 19, 2020 | 5,981 | 0 |
| Aug 20, 2020 | 5,981 | 0 |
| Aug 22, 2020 | 5,981 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Ahtanum, WA covers the area today.
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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 October 5, 2020 at 6:48 PM PDT. Identifier 2020-WAYAA-000087.
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.