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Yakima Valley. Another fire started in Benton City on the 700 block of 13th Street about 4:10 p.m. It was initially reported to involve a home, but there were later reports that it was just a ...
The fire caused the closure of U.S. Route 12 across White Pass, and "evacuate now" orders were issued to residents near Rimrock Lake on July 24. [4] [5] Outdoor city amenities and events were closed in Yakima on July 25 due to poor air quality, which was "unhealthy" or "very unhealthy" for all people at monitoring stations across the Yakima Valley.
Fire name Complex name County Start date Cause Size (acres) Structures lost Deaths Injuries Notes Image 2024: Beam Road Fire [2] Yakima June 15 8,542 acres (3,457 ha) 0 0 0 Contained June 19 Extinguished June 27 Big Horn Fire [3] [4] Klickitat July 22, unknown 51,569 acres (20,869 ha) 0 0 0 Contained July 31 Black Canyon Fire [5] Yakima July 22 ...
The wildfire expanded by 8,900 acres to almost 13,000 acres between September 1 and 2, [2] then grew to 30,000 acres on September 2. [3] [4] Evacuations of over 400 homes began on September 1 and the entire Yakima River Canyon was closed to recreation, while the city of Selah was threatened. [3] By September 2,900 homes had been evacuated. [3]
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Most concerning was the Range 12 fire that spread from Grant and Yakima Counties into Benton County, where the sprawling nuclear site is located. The fire threatened to summit Rattlesnake Mountain and spread into the Hanford Nuclear Site itself." Seattle Times "Yakima area wildfire is 90 percent contained". The Seattle Times. August 4, 2016.
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 ...
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 Fire in the Okanogan–Wenatchee National Forest near Lake Chelan , which had grown to more than 12,000 acres (4,900 ha).