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This list only includes "major fires" that destroyed over 5,000 acres (20 km 2), incurred fatalities or damaged a significant amount of property. Older fires are increasingly underreported. For example, none of the wildfires of 1926–31 and 1943 that together destroyed more than 500,000 acres of the Colville National Forest are included. [1]
87 people (including 78 firefighters) killed and several towns destroyed across north Idaho and western Montana. ~2,000 separate blazes burned an area the size of Connecticut in what is believed to have been the largest fire in recorded U.S. history up to that point, although it has since been exceeded by the 2011 Texas wildfires and the 2020 ...
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). [2]
The fire grew to 9,000 acres on July 14 and people in over 1,000 homes were told to evacuate. [56] On July 15 it was 11,000 acres, and evacuations were ordered for 1,500 homes. [57] It was 90% contained by July 19. [58] Pyrocumulus clouds from the Cub Creek Fire seen from Kingston, Washington 115 miles (185 km) distant
A couple dozen wildfires burned in Oregon and Washington earlier this week, closing Interstate 84 east of the Tri-Cities and sending enough smoke over the Tri-Cities that the air quality was rated ...
List of Washington wildfires; 2020 Western United States wildfire season This page was last edited on 22 April 2023, at 08:52 (UTC). Text is ...
Four, lightning-caused fires make up the Chilliwack Complex Fire, which is burning just south of the U.S.-Canada border approximately five to 15 miles east northeast of the Mt. Baker Ski Area.
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 ...