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The extent of wildfires in August 2015 led to the federal declaration of a state of emergency in Washington state by President Barack Obama on August 21, 2015. [ 23 ] [ 24 ] By August 24, over 16 active fires had burned more than 920 square miles (2,400 km 2 ).
This is a list of building or structure fires where a ... 1877 – Second U.S. Patent Office fire, in Washington, ... May 19 – 2015 Baku residence building fire.
The Twisp River Fire was one of the five fires that comprised the Okanogan Complex Fire. [11] It was reported on August 19 at 12:23 Pacific Daylight Time. The fire started when tree branches struck a nearby powerline. By 06:00 hours on August 20, it was reported to be 7,231 acres and had reached the outskirts of Twisp, Washington. The fire's ...
Nov. 20—Washington has had its fair share of natural disasters. The Yacolt Burn of 1902 swept across 239,000 acres in the state's southwestern corner and killed more than three dozen people ...
Wind-whipped wildfires roared through southeast Washington state, virtually wiping out an entire small town, reducing its City Hall and fire department to rubble, authorities said Tuesday. Three ...
More than 265,000 acres have burned so far this year in Washington on both state and federal lands. That’s compared to last year’s total of 165,000 acres and the 10-year average of roughly ...
Sleepy Hollow Fire (2015) in Monitor, close to where it was ignited, heading over the ridge and into the city of Wenatchee. These are incomplete lists of the major and minor wildfires in Washington state history, along with total costs of the fires for the years starting in 2002. Wildfires are infrequent on the western side of the Cascade Crest ...
Sockeye Fire; W. 2015 Washington wildfires This page was last edited on 2 May 2023, at 09:03 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...