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The state had more than 630 wildfires by the first week of July, on par with the state's record 2015 wildfire season. [3] Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported the end of the fire season by October 12, [4] and the DNR and the Northwest Interargency Fire Center reported zero fires in the state on October 14. [5]
Fire map for July 23: 2016 Buck Creek Chelan July 22 1,987 acres (804 ha) Lightning caused 2015 231 Fire Stevens 1,138 0 0 Twenty-One Mile Grade fire Ferry 2,250 0 0 2014 Hansel Fire Chelan 1,016 0 0 Little Bridge Fire Okanogan August 2 4,896 0 0 Lone Mountain Fire Chelan July 14 2,770 0 0 2012 Cashmere Fire Wenatchee Complex [53] Chelan 2,651 0 0
The 2023 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2023 in the US state of Washington. Conditions going into the season were low-risk for fire, with higher than average precipitation over the prior winter and spring. [1] Some experts anticipated a later peak, possibly into November, for the Pacific Northwest due to El Niño effects. [2]
In January 2019, the Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Hilary Franz proposed a $55 million, 10-year plan to combat fires that included greatly expanded budgeting for 30 new full-time and 40 seasonal firefighters, new training academies, new firefighting equipment including aircraft, and a new "rangeland" firefighting plan for the state. [1]
The 2017 Thomas fire destroyed over a thousand buildings as it tore through 281,000 acres of Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, becoming the largest wildfire in state history at the time. Two ...
Fires included the Nakia Creek Fire in Southwest Washington and one on private timberland near Loch Katrine in the Alpine Lakes Wilderness 30 miles east of Seattle. [18] [19] Flames from the Loch Katrine fire could be seen from Seattle. [20] On October 18 and 19, due to wildfire smoke, Seattle had the worst air quality of any major city in the ...
The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan, which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha). [ 2 ] On October 30, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources announced the end of the 2024 fire season. [ 3 ]
The towns of Phoenix and Talent were mostly destroyed in the Almeda fire on September 8. [250] In Washington, 2020 wildfires burned 800,000 acres (3,200 km 2), with 418 structures, including 195 homes, burned.