List of Washington wildfires

Sleepy Hollow Fire (2015) in Monitor, close to where it was ignited, heading over the ridge and into the city of Wenatchee

These are incomplete lists of the major and minor wildfires in Washington state history, along with total costs of the fires for the years starting in 2002. Wildfires are infrequent on the western side of the Cascade Crest, but a regular component of Eastern Washington ecology.

## Major Washington wildfires chronologically

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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (August 2015)

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This list only includes "major fires" that destroyed over 5,000 acres (20 km2), 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]

### 2020s

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Cause  | Size
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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, unknown  | 9,211 acres (3,728 ha)[5] | 0  | 0  | 0  | Contained August 1  | 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][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 outbuildings  | 0  | 0  | Temporarily closed State Route 21 and Keller Ferry, evacuations of Keller and the Buffalo Lake area; August 1 a false news story was circulated about 28 homes being burned, Inciweb and NWCC debunked.  | Fire perimeter map for 7-23-24
2023  | Oregon Fire[13] |  | Spokane/Pend Oreille |  | 10,817 acres (4,377 ha)[13] | 384[14] | 1[14] |  |  |
Gray Fire[15] |  | Spokane |  | 10,085[15][14] | 259[14] | 1[14] |  |  |
2020  | Cold Springs Canyon/Pearl Hill Fires  | Labor Day fires and Inchelium Complex  | Okanogan & Douglas |  | Over 410,000[16] |  | 1[17] |  |  |
Whitney Fire  |  | Lincoln | September 7  | 127,430  |  |  |  |  |

### 2010s

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Year  | Fire name  | Complex name  | County  | Start date  | Size
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2019  | 243 Command Fire[18] |  | Grant | June 3  | 20,380 acres (82.5 km2)  | 0  | 0  | 0  | fully contained by June 10  | Satellite view taken June 4, 2019
Cold Creek Fire[19] |  | Benton  |  | 42,000 acres (170 km2)  |  |  |  |  |
Pipeline Fire |  | Kittitas  |  | 6,515 acres (26.37 km2)  |  |  |  |  |
Powerline Fire[20] |  | Grant  |  | 7,800 acres (32 km2)  |  |  |  |  |
Williams Flats Fire |  | Okanogan  |  | 44,446 acres (179.87 km2)  |  |  |  | Largest wildfire of the 2019 season  |
2016  | Hart Fire  |  | Lincoln  |  | 18,220  | 39  | 0  |  |  |
Range 12 Fire[21] |  | Yakima |  | 177,210  |  |  |  |  |
2016 Snake River Fire  |  | Garfield  |  | 11,452 acres (46.34 km2)  |  |  |  |  |
Spokane Complex Fire  | Spokane Complex  | Spokane  |  | 7,251 acres (29.34 km2)  | 10  |  |  | Formed from the Wellesley and Yale Road fires
Contained August 12  | Water drop run August 21
2015  | Black Canyon Fire[22] | Chelan Complex  | Chelan  | August 14  | 6,761  |  |  |  |
Blue Creek Fire[23] |  | Walla Walla  | July 20  | 6,004  |  |  |  |  |
Carpenter Road Fire[24] |  | Stevens | August 14  | 63,972  | 36[25] |  |  |  |
Chelan Complex[26] | Chelan Complex  | Chelan  | August 14  | 88,985  | 44[25] |  |  | The complex included the Antoine, Black Canyon, Cagle, McFarland Creek, and Reach fires  |
Cougar Creek Fire[27] |  | Yakima  | August 10  | 53,523  | 0  | 0  |  |  | Firefighter and flames
Douglas County Complex[n 1] | Douglas County Complex  | Douglas  | July 10  | 22,337[28] | 0  | 0  | 0  | contained July 15  |
First Creek Fire[26] |  | Chelan  | August 14  | 7,490[25] | 19[25] |  |  |  |
Goodell Fire[29] | Upper Skagit Complex | Skagit | August 10  | 7,111  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Graves Mountain fire[30] | Colville & Kettle | Ferry  | August 14  | 8,557  |  |  |  | Largest and main fire of the Colville Complex Fires
After containment of smaller fires, oversight was transferred to the Kettle Complex on Aug 31, 2015[31] |
Grizzly Bear Complex[32] | Grizzly Bear Complex  | Columbia / Wallowa, Oregon | August 13  | 80,725  | 33[25] |  |  | Complex started August 13 via 18 lightning-caused fires.
All but the Bear Ridge Fire in the North burned together  | Smoke column from fires
Highway 8 Fire[33] |  | Klickitat  | August 10  | 33,100  |  |  |  |  |
Lime Belt Fire[34] | Okanogan Complex  | Okanogan  | August 15  | 133,450  |  |  |  |  |
Newby Lake Fire[35] |  | Okanogan  | July 4  | 5,065[n 2] |  |  |  |  |
North Star Fire[36] |  | Ferry / Okanogan  |  | 218,138  |  |  |  |  |
Okanogan Complex[34] | Okanogan Complex | Okanogan  | August 15  | 304,782[37] | 195[25] | 3  |  | Included the Lime Belt, Tunk Block, Twisp River and Nine Mile Fires.
The Lime Belt Fire originated as three separate fires that burned together.
On August 31, the Tunk Block fire was separated from this complex, as it was about to merge with the North Star Fire, leaving the complex with an area of 133,118 acres.  | Smoke near Omak
Paradise Fire[38] |  | Jefferson | May 15  | 2,796  | 0  | 0  |  | A rare rainforest fire in the Olympic National Park
finally extinguished in September  | Smoke plume
Renner Fire[30] | Kettle Complex  | Ferry  | August 11  | 13,775  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Saddle Lakes Fire[39] |  | Grant  | June 28  | 14,357  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Sleepy Hollow Fire[40] |  | Chelan  | June 28  | 2,950  | 33  | 0  | 4  |  | Cresting ridge towards Wenatchee
Stickpin Fire[30] | Kettle Complex  | Ferry  | August 11  | 53,828  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Tower Fire[41] | Kaniksu Complex  | Pend Oreille  | August 11  | 24,194  |  |  |  |  |
Tunk Block Fire[42] | Okanogan Complex  | Okanogan  | August 15  | 165,918  |  |  |  |  |
Twisp River Fire[34] | Okanogan Complex  | Okanogan  | August 15  | 11,222  |  | 3  |  |  |
Wolverine Fire[43] |  | Chelan  | August 13  | 65,512  | 4[25] |  |  |  | Satellite view of smoke August 2015
2014  | Carlton Complex fire | Carlton Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 256,108[37] | 300  | 1  |  | Began as four separate lightning strike fires, (the Cougar Flat, French Creek, Gold Hike, and Stokes fires).
The four merged and continued as one large fire complex  | Satellite image July 18, 2014
Chiwaukum Creek Fire[44] | Chiwaukum Complex  | Chelan  | July 14  | 13,895  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Duncan Fire  |  | Chelan  | July 14  | 12,695  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Devil's Elbow Complex[n 3] | Devil's Elbow Complex  | Ferry  | August 2  | 26,349  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Mills Canyon Fire  |  | Chelan  | July 8  | 22,571  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Snag Canyon Fire  |  | Kittitas  | August 2  | 12,667  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Upper Falls Fire  |  | Okanogan  | August 2  | 8,118  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
2013  | Colockum Tarps Fire[45][46] |  | Chelan / Kittitas | July 27  | 80,184  | 5  | 0  | 3  |  |
Desmarais Fire[47] |  | Yakima  | June 6  | 10,130  | 0  | 0  | 1  |  |
Mile Marker 28 Fire[48] |  | Klickitat  | July 24  | 26,092  | 0  | 0  | 6  |  |
Wood Gulch Fire[49] |  | Klickitat  |  | 5,400  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
2012  | Antoine 2 Fire[50] |  | Chelan / Okanogan  |  | 6,837  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Apache Pass Fire[51] |  | Lincoln |  | 23,324  | 4  | 0  | 0  |  |
Barker Canyon Complex[50] | Barker Canyon Complex  | Douglas |  | 81,155  | 12  | 0  | 0  |  |
Buffalo Lake Road Fire[50][52] |  | Okanogan  |  | 11,299  | 1  | 0  | 5  |  |
Byrd Fire  | Wenatchee Complex[53] | Chelan  |  | 14,119  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Canyon Fire  | Wenatchee Complex[53] | Chelan  |  | 7,557  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Cascade Creek Fire[54] |  | Skamania / Yakima  |  | 20,296  | 0  | 0  | 2  |  |
Crane Road Fire[55] |  | Douglas  |  | 12,500  | 7  | 0  | 0  |  |
Goat Fire  |  | Okanogan  |  | 7,378  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Milepost 10[56] |  | Douglas  |  | 5,445  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Peavine Canyon Fire  | Wenatchee Complex[53] | Chelan / Kittitas  |  | 19,467  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Poison Canyon Fire  | Wenatchee Complex[53] | Chelan  |  | 5,910  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
St Marys Mission Road Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 17,031  | 10  | 0  | 4  |
Table Mountain Fire[50] |  | Kittitas  |  | 42,312  | 5  | 0  | 2  |
Taylor Bridge Fire[50] |  | Kittitas  |  | 23,500  | 272  | 0  | 2  |  |
2011  | Monastery Fire[57] |  | Klickitat  |  | 3,626  | 113  | 0  | 10  |  |
Wishram II Fire[58] |  | Klickitat  |  | 11,008  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
2010  | Baird Springs Fire[59] |  | Grant  |  | 7,693  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Cowiche Mill Fire[60] |  | Yakima  |  | 5,834  | 7  | 0  | 3  |  |
Eureka Fire[61] |  | Walla Walla  |  | 21,620  | 2  | 0  | 0  |  |
Hubbard Fire[62] |  | Columbia  |  | 11,500  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Swakane Fire[63] |  | Chelan  |  | 19,291  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |

### 2000s

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2009  | Dry Creek Complex[50] | Dry Creek Complex  | Benton / Yakima  |  | 48,902  | 2  | 0  | 3  |  |
Oden Road Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 9,607  | 14  | 0  | 3  |  |
2008  | Badger Mountain Fire[50] |  | Chelan / Douglas  |  | 15,023  | 0  | 0  | 5  |  |
Cold Springs Fire |  | Klickitat  |  | 7,729  | 0  | 0  | 0  |
Columbia River Road Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 22,115  | 0  | 0  | 1  |  |
Smith Lake Fire[64] |  | Douglas  |  | 12,513  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Spokane Valley Fire[65] |  | Spokane  |  | 1,008  | 21  | 0  | 1  | Over 20 buildings lost  |
Swanson Lake Fire[50] |  | Lincoln  |  | 19,090  | 18  | 0  | 1  |  |
2007  | Domke Lake Fire[50] |  | Okanogan / Wenatchee  |  | 11,900  | 1  | 0  | 2  |  |
Easy Street Fire[50] |  | Chelan  |  | 5,209  | 1  | 0  | 1  |
Les Blair Fire[66] |  | Benton  |  | 6,000  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Manila Creek Fire[67] |  | Ferry  |  | 26,805  | 2  | 0  | 3  |  |
Overlook Fire[68] |  | Franklin / Grant |  | 27,071  |  |  |  |  |
Six Prong Fire[69] | Horse Heaven Complex  | Klickitat  |  | 20,898  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
South Omak Lake Fire[70] |  | Okanogan  |  | 10,500  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Tunk Grade Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 15,540  | 19  | 0  | 0  |  |
Wautoma Fire[71] |  | Benton  |  | 69,000  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Wood Gulch Fire[69] | Horse Heaven Complex  | Klickitat  |  | 7,677  | 0  | 0  | 0  |
2006  | Columbia Complex[72] | Columbia Complex  | Columbia / Garfield |  | 109,402  | 28  | 0  | 11  |  |
Flick Creek Fire[73] |  | Chelan  |  | 7,889  | 0  | 0  | 4  |  |
Highlands Fire[74] |  | Douglas  |  | 5,506  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Rocky Ford Fire[75] |  | Grant  |  | 5,000  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Tatoosh Fire[76][77] | Tatoosh Complex  | Okanogan / British Columbia |  | 47,787[n 4] | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Tinpan Fire[79] |  | Chelan  |  | 9,252  | 0  | 0  | 6  |
Tripod Complex Fire[80] | Tripod Complex[n 5] | Okanogan  |  | 175,184  | 2  | 0  | 7  |  |
2005  | McClane Fire[81] |  | Franklin  |  | 6,000  | 2  | 0  | 0  |  |
School Fire |  | Columbia / Garfield  |  | 51,892  | 215  | 0  | 1  |  | Satellite view August 10
Walker Canyon Fire[82] |  | Walla Walla |  | 25,000  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Wall Lake Fire[83] |  | Lincoln  |  | 5,400  | 3  | 0  | 1  |  |
West Omak Lake Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 11,325  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
2004  | Deep Harbor Fire[85] | Pot Peak/Sisi Ridge Complex  | Chelan  |  | 28,500  | 3  | 0  |  |  |
Pot Peak Fire[85] | Pot Peak/Sisi Ridge Complex  | Chelan  |  | 17,190  | 0  | 0  | 6  |  |
2003  | Fawn Peak Complex[86] | Fawn Peak Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 81,343  | 0  | 0  | 4  |  |
Hatten Road Fire[87] |  | Lincoln  |  | 5,460  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Juniper Dunes Fire[88] |  | Franklin  |  | 5,200  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
McGinnis Flats Fire[89] |  | Ferry  |  | 2,245  | 2  | 1  | 1  | One reported death  |
Needles Fire[90] |  | Okanogan  |  | 21,300  | 1  | 0  | 5  |  |
Rattlesnake Canyon Fire[91] |  | Ferry  |  | 10,560  | 11  | 0  | 2  |  |
Togo Fire[92] |  | Ferry  |  | 5,800  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
2002  | Deer Point Fire  |  | Chelan / Okanogan  |  | 43,375  | 5  | 0  | 0  |  |
Pumphouse Fire[93] |  | Yakima  |  | 10,412  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
Quartz Mountain Complex[94] | Quartz Mountain Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 12,144  | 0  | 0  | 0  |  |
2001  | Gamble Mills Fire[95] | Brewster & Virginia Lake Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 5,550  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Mount Leona Fire[96] | Mount Leona Complex fires | Ferry  | August 13  | 6,144[97] |  |  |  | One subfire in the complex, the Sleepy Fire/Sleepy 91 Fire | Sunset over the Okanogan Highlands
Rex Creek Fire  | Rex Creek Complex fires | Chelan / Okanogan  |  | 50,000  |  |  |  |  |
St. Mary's Mission Fire[95] | Virginia Lake Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 32,980  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Thirtymile Fire[85] |  | Okanogan  |  | 9,324  | 0  | 4  | 14  |  |
Virginia Lake Fire[95] | Virginia Lake Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 36,680  | 9  | 0  | 1(+)  |  |
2000  | 24 Command Fire[50] |  | Benton |  | 192,000  | 36  | 0  | 0  |  |
Alderdale Fire[1][84] |  | Klickitat  |  | 6,180  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Buffalo Lake Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 9,300  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Cayuse Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 5,460  | 0  | 0  |  |  |
Goodnoe Hills Fire[1][84] |  | Klickitat  |  | 6,510  | 1  | 0  |  |  |
Mule Dry Fire[50] |  | Benton, Klickitat & Yakima |  | 76,800  | 1  | 0  | 0  |  |
Rocky Hull Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 9,404  | 37  | 0  |  |  |

### 1900–1999

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1998  | Cleveland Fire[84] |  | Klickitat  |  | 18,500  | 11  | 0  |  |  |
Rattle Snake Ridge Fire[1] |  | Yakima  |  | 18,000  |  |  |  |  |
1997  | Olympia Command Fire[1] |  | Benton  |  | 5,500  |  |  |  |  |
Pow Wah Kee Fire[1] | August 3  | Asotin |  | 8,000  |  |  |  |  |
1996  | Baird Springs Fire[1] |  | Grant  | August 2  | 14,000  |  |  |  |  |
Cold Creek Fire[50] |  | Benton / Yakima  |  | 57,000  |  |  |  |  |
1994  | Copper Butte Fire[96] |  | Ferry  |  | 10,473  |  |  |  |  |
Rat Creek / Hatchery Creek Fire  |  | Chelan  |  | 43,000  |  |  |  |
Tyee Creek Fire[98][99] |  | Chelan  |  | 135,000  | 37  |  |  |
1992  | Castlerock Fire[1] |  | Wenatchee  |  | 3,500[100] | 24  |  |  |  |
Skookum Fire[50] |  | Klickitat  |  | 51,000  |  |  |  |  |
1988  | Dinkelman Fire[50] |  | Chelan  |  | 50,000  |  |  |  |  |
Limekiln Fire[101] |  | Asotin  |  | 8,400  |  |  |  |  |
South 17 Fire[96] | South 17 Complex  | Ferry  |  | 9740  |  |  |  | Included the Cody Butte Fire  |
White Mountain Fire[96] | White Mountain Complex  | Ferry  | August 23  | 21,717  |  |  |  | Included the Sherman Fire  |
1987  | Hangman Hills Fire[50] |  | Spokane  |  | 1,500  | 24  | 2  |  | Two deaths recorded for fire  |
1985  | Barker Mountain Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 60,000  |  |  |  |  |
1979  | Salmon Creek Fire[1] |  | Okanogan  |  | 7,000  |  |  |  |  |
1970  | Lightning Bust fire[50] |  | Chelan / Okanogan  |  | 188,000  |  |  |  |  |
1951  | Great Forks Fire[102] |  | Clallam |  | 38,000  |  | 0  |  |  |
1934  | Aeneas Creek Fire[103] |  | Ferry  | "Late july"  | 21,000 acres (8,500 ha)  |  |  |  | Not to be confused with the 2001 fire in the same area.  |
1929  | Camas fire[103] |  | Chelan  |  | 20,000 acres (8,100 ha)  |  |  |  | In the Chelan District  |
Dollar Mountain Fire[103] |  | Ferry  | August 4  | 98,000–142,000 acres (40,000–57,000 ha)  |  | 1  |  | The northern Kettle River Ranges eastern slopes  | fire damage in the Sherman Creek drainage
Dole Valley fire[50] |  | Clark / Skamania  |  | 227,500 acres (92,100 ha)  |  |  |  |  |
Toats Coulee Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 80,000 acres (32,000 ha)  |  |  |  |  |
1919  | Sunset Fire[1] |  | Clark / Skamania  |  | 26,900 acres (10,900 ha)  |  |  |  |  |
1910  | Great Fire of 1910[50] |  | Pend Oreille / Spokane |  | 150,000 acres (61,000 ha)  | Unknown  | 38  | Unknown  | Western perimeter fires on one of the largest fires in United States history.
The center of the burn was in Idaho and Montana  |
1902  | Yacolt Burn[50] | Yacolt Burn  | Clark / Skamania / Cowlitz |  | 238,900 acres (96,700 ha)  | Unknown  | 65+  | Unknown  | A complex of several fires
The majority was as one fire between Carson and Yacolt  | Fire-killed Douglas-fir in 1934

## Minor Washington wildfires chronologically

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List of minor fires, burning over 1,000 acres (4.0 km2) and under 5,000 acres (20 km2) with no loss of life or significant numbers of structures.

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2024  | Bridge Creek Fire |  | Ferry  | July 19  | 3,998 acres (1,618 ha)  | 1  | 0  | Contained August 4  | Fire map for July 23
2016  | Buck Creek  |  | Chelan  | July 22  | 1,987 acres (804 ha)  |  |  | Lightning caused
2015  | 231 Fire  |  | Stevens  |  | 1,138  | 0  | 0  |  |
Twenty-One Mile Grade fire  |  | Ferry  |  | 2,250  | 0  | 0  |  |
2014  | Hansel Fire  |  | Chelan  |  | 1,016  | 0  | 0  |  |
Little Bridge Fire  |  | Okanogan  | August 2  | 4,896  | 0  | 0  |  |
Lone Mountain Fire  |  | Chelan  | July 14  | 2,770  | 0  | 0  |  |
2012  | Cashmere Fire  | Wenatchee Complex[53] | Chelan  |  | 2,651  | 0  | 0  |  |
Highway 141 Fire[84] |  | Klickitat  |  | 1,644  | 0  | 0  |  |
2011  | Salmon Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 1,631  | 0  | 0  |  |
2010  | Highway 8 Fire[50] |  | Klickitat  |  | 2,019  | 0  | 0  |  |
2009  | Discovery Fire[50] |  | Okanogan  |  | 4,120  | 0  | 0  |  |
Rainbow Bridge Fire[50] |  | Chelan  |  | 3,710  | 0  | 0  |  |
2005  | Dirty Face Fire[84] |  | Chelan  |  | 1,150  | 0  | 0  |  |
Second Hud Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 4,272  | 0  | 0  |  |
Weather Station Fire[104] |  | Grant  |  | 4,918  | 0  | 0  |  |
2004  | Mud Lake Fire[84] |  | Yakima  |  | 4,000  | 0  | 0  |  |
Williams Butte Fire[105] | Williams Butte Complex  | Chelan & Okanogan  |  | 1,257  | 0  | 0  |  |
2003  | Ahtanum Ridge Fire[106] |  | Yakima  |  | 2,678  | 0  | 1  |  |
Ayers Gulch Fire[107] |  | Asotin |  | 1,334  | 0  | 0  |  |
Black Canyon Fire[108] |  | Stevens  |  | 2,280  | 1  | 3  |  |
Crystal Creek Fire[109] |  | Chelan  |  | 1,584  | 0  | 5  |  |
Isabel Fire[110] |  | Okanogan  |  | 4,535  | 0  | 0  |  |
Maple Fire[111] |  | Chelan  |  | 2,500  | 0  | 2  |  |
Noca Complex[112] | Noca Complex  | Skagit & Whatcom |  | 3,382  | 0  | 0  |  |
Paddle Fire[113] |  | Stevens  |  | 1,324  | 0  | 0  |  |
Shooting Range Fire[114] |  | Benton  |  | 2,500  | 0  | 0  |  |
Square Lake Fire[115] |  | Chelan  |  | 1,097  | 0  | 0  |  |
Watt Road Fire[116] |  | Spokane  |  | 1,064  | 7  | 0  |  |
2002  | Deer Mountain Fire  |  | Chelan  |  | 2,281  | 0  | 0  |  | Fire equipment and aerial bombardment
2001  | Bailey Mountain Fire[95] | Virginia Lake Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 3,164  | 0  | 0  |  |
Goose Lake Fire[95] | Virginia Lake Complex  | Okanogan  |  | 1,283  | 0  | 0  |  |
Libby Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 3,830  | 0  | 0  |  |
North Coppei Fire[84] |  | Columbia  |  | 4,810  | 0  | 0  |  |
Union Valley Fire[84] |  | Chelan  |  | 4,700  | 0  | 0  |  |
1999  | Malot Fire[84] |  | Okanogan  |  | 2,808  | 0  | 0  |  |
1997  | Red Lake Fire[84] |  | Stevens  |  | 1,151  | 5  | 0  |  |
1996  | Bowie Road Fire[84] |  | Spokane  |  | 3,020  | 8  | 0  |  |
1988  | Aeneas Creek Fire[101][117] |  | Ferry  | August 23  | 2,300  |  |  | Same area as the 21,000 acres (8,500 ha) Aeneas Creek Fire of 1934[103] |

## Year-by-year statistics

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Wildfire seasons are defined by Washington state law as lasting from April 15 through October 15 of each year, allowing for burn bans and other restrictions to be imposed on state lands by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources during that time.[118] According to a North American Seasonal Fire Assessment and Outlook report issued in June, 2019, the summer months represent peak fire season.[119]

| Total
fires  | Total area burned  | Structures
lost  | Fatalities  | Injuries  | Total
cost  | Notes  | Source

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2002 | 1,285  | 92,742  | 37,531  |  |  |  |  |  | [120]
2003 | 1,373  | 200,517  | 81,146  |  |  |  |  |  | [121]
2004 | 1,674  | 92,617  | 37,481  |  |  |  |  |  | [122]
2005 | 998  | 185,748  | 75,170  |  |  |  |  |  | [123]
2006 | 1,579  | 410,060  | 165,950  |  |  |  |  |  | [124]
2007 | 1,268  | 214,925  | 86,977  |  |  |  |  |  | [125]
2008 | 1,303  | 147,264  | 59,596  |  |  |  |  |  | [126]
2009 | 1,976  | 77,250  | 31,260  |  |  |  |  |  | [127]
2010 | 870  | 56,820  | 22,990  |  |  |  |  |  | [128]
2011 | 993  | 17,480  | 7,070  |  |  |  |  |  | [129]
2012 | 1,342  | 259,526  | 105,026  |  |  |  |  |  | [130]
2013 | 1,527  | 152,603  | 61,756  |  |  |  |  |  | [131]
2014 | 1,480  | 386,972  | 156,602  | 300  | 1  |  |  |  | [132]
2015 | 2,013  | 1,137,664  | 460,396  | 3  | 4  |  | $253 million[133] |  | [134]
2016 | 1,272  | 293,717  | 118,863  |  |  |  |  |  | [135]
2017 | 1,346  | 404,223  | 163,583  |  |  |  |  |  | [136]
2018 | 1,743  | 438,833  | 177,589  |  |  |  |  |  | [137]
2019 | 1,394  | 169,742  | 68,692  |  |  |  |  |  | [138]
2020 | 1,646  | 842,370  | 340,895  | 181  | 1  |  |  |  | [139]
2021 | 1,863  | 674,222  | 272,848  |  |  |  |  |  | [140]
2022 | 1,492  | 173,659  | 70,277  |  |  |  |  |  | [141]
2023 | 1,707  | 151,316  | 61,235  |  |  |  |  | Preliminary data as of October[142] was higher than the end of the season reported numbers.  | [143]
Sources: National Interagency Fire Center[144]

## Notes

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1. ^ Complex of two fires.
2. ^ Excludes acreage in British Columbia.
3. ^ Complex of four fires.
4. ^ The Tatoosh Complex burned 51,671 acres in total, of which 37,506 acres were within Washington State.[78]
5. ^ The Tripod Fire (45,053 acres) and Spur Peak Fire (62,173 acres) burned together on August 19, 2006, and continued to grow as one fire until October 3.

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