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Batterman Fire: Satellite image of Wenatchee, Washington area on July 3 before the fire and July 5 showing smoke plume and 10 km long burn scar south of Badger Mountain The Batterman Fire in Douglas County near East Wenatchee ( 47°24′32″N 120°10′34″W / 47.409°N 120.176°W / 47.409; -120.176 [ 17 ] ) began on Independence ...
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]
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).
This season started quieter than normal due to unusually colder weather that kept Eastern and Southeastern Washington burning index's largely below normal into July. [1] As of October 2022, a total of 140,000 acres (57,000 ha) of land in the state was burned – the fewest number of acres burned since 2012.
One of the largest blazes, the so-called Gray Fire near Spokane in eastern Washington, began around noon and a few hours later had surged through 4.7 square miles (12 square kilometers) of grass ...
DNR helicopter dipping from Wenas Lake: Cougar Creek Fire [6] [7] Asotin & Garfield July 15, unknown 20,699 acres (8,377 ha) 4 destroyed 5 damaged 0 0 7-24-24 map of fire perimeter: Pioneer Fire [8] Chelan June 8, human caused 36,763 acres (14,877 ha) 0 0 0 Stehekin ordered to evacuate on July 28 7-24-24 map of fire perimeter: Retreat Fire [9 ...
Between July 16 and 30, the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and many county governments – including Mason, Thurston, King, Pierce and Whatcom Counties – issued fire safety burn bans due to elevated risk of uncontrolled fires.
What may have been the first significant fire of the year occurred on April 24, when 20 acres burned at Woodland, Washington in Clark County, extinguished via aerial attack. [12] On May 22, a controlled burn initiated by a local resident went wild and burned 300 acres near the Yakima Training Center. An Army helicopter crew was credited with ...