Wildfire Map Washington State 2015

See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters on the fire weather avalanche center wildfire map.

Wildfire map washington state 2015. Interactive real time wildfire and forest fire map for washington. It was composed of five fires that were caused by lightning strikes on august 15 2015 with two of the fires near conconully merging days later on august 19. The reservoirs are all in excellent shape he said. Bancorp tower and white stag sign from the burnside bridge.

We hope you enjoyed it and if you want to download the pictures in high quality simply right click the image and choose save as. The extent of wildfires in august 2015 led to the federal declaration of a state of emergency in washington state by president barack obama on august 21 2015. The northwest interagency coordination center nwcc is the geographic area coordination center for the northwest region which includes the states of oregon and washington. The northwest fire location map displays active fire incidents within oregon and washington.

Bureau of land management. Cooperating agencies include the. Thanks for reading review of the 2015 wildfire season in the northwest wildfire today throughout. See current wildfires and wildfire perimeters in washington on the fire weather avalanche center wildfire map.

8 24 2016 nw large fire map inside washington state fire map featured under review of the 2015 wildfire season in the northwest wildfire today throughout washington state fire map. Interactive real time wildfire map for the united states including california oregon washington idaho arizona and others. Fire information is updated as it is received. Wildfire smoke from washington and oregon was blown west over western oregon including portland and the rest of the willamette valley on august 22 23 2015.

Please check with local authorities before lighting any fire. Dnr provides information about wildfires. By august 24 over 16 active fires had burned more than 920 square miles 2 400 km 2. 5 6 portland skyline during 2015 oregon wildfires seen are the u s.

The okanogan complex fire was a wildfire affecting okanogan county in north central washington state. A large fire as defined by the national wildland coordinating group is any wildland fire in timber 100 acres or greater and 300 acres or greater in grasslands rangelands or has an incident management team assigned to it. The best way to get up to date information on wildfires is to follow the wawildfire hashtag on twitter. The points displayed on the map above indicate each fire s starting location and provide general references only.

Here we have another image northwest interagency coordination center. Located in portland or the nwcc serves as the focal point for interagency resource coordination logistics support aviation support and predictive services for all state and federal agencies involved in wildland fire management and suppression in the region. At its peak it burned over 304 782 acres 123 341 ha of land and forced the evacuations of numerous towns including conconully twisp and winthrop.