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2024 →. 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 ...
The 2021 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2021. By late April, all of Eastern Washington had been classified by the United States Drought Monitor as "abnormally dry" with moderate to severe drought conditions. [2] The state had more than 630 wildfires by the first week of July, on par with the state's record 2015 wildfire ...
The 2022 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2022. As of August 4, 2022, there have been four large wildfires that have burned 30,800 acres (12,500 ha) across the US state of Washington. This season started quieter than normal due to unusually colder weather that kept Eastern and Southeastern Washington burning index's largely ...
Washington wildfire, smoke map: Track latest wildfires, red flag warnings. East Bremerton’s air quality monitoring station was reporting an Air Quality Index of 58, as of Friday morning. Quality ...
7-24-24 map of fire perimeter: Retreat Fire [9] [10] Yakima July 23, cause unknown 44,588 acres (18,044 ha) 5 0 0 Also called the Rimrock Retreat Fire, Closed US-12, caused evacuations and county-wide declaration of emergency 7-27-24 map of fire perimeter: Swawilla Fire [11] [12] Ferry & Okanogan July 17, Lightning 53,462 acres (21,635 ha) 2 ...
As of July 25, nine large, active wildfires are burning in Washington, collectively covering more than 114,000 acres, according to the National Interagency Coordination Center. All nine are east ...
The 2020 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2020. The season was a part of the 2020 Western United States wildfires. By September, wildfires had burned over 713,000 acres, 181 homes had been lost, and one death occurred as a result. [2][1] The 2020 fire season saw more individual fires than in any other recorded year.
On July 10, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources announced a burn ban on its lands that would last until at least September 30. The ban was issued in response to several large, human-caused wildfires amid the statewide drought emergency and drier-than-normal weather across Washington. The largest fire at the time was the Pioneer ...