2016 Washington wildfires

2016 Washington wildfires
Statistics
Total fires1,272
Total area293,717 acres (118,863 ha)
Impacts
Deaths0
Damage$39,667,371.00
Season
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The 2016 Washington wildfires season were a series of wildfires in the U.S. state of Washington, notable because of brush fires near the Hanford Nuclear Reservation, and because of brush fires near Spokane, Washington.

During the summer of 2016 (in July and August particularly during the Range 12 fire), there was grave concern about the fires in eastern Washington due to the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in Benton County, Washington, and about rare and endangered species that may have been affected by the fire.[1] [2][3][4] Also of concern were the sheep and cattle killed during the fire.[5][6][7]

  1. ^ University of Washington. "Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON". Remote Sensing. USDA. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  2. ^ "Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties". KIMA-TV. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  3. ^ "Range 12 Fire Map: Officials say 70,000 acres burning in Yakima, Benton Counties". KEPR-TV. 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  4. ^ Jacobs, R.A. (2022). Nuclear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300230338. In the summer of 2016, numerous large wildfires threatened to spread across the Hanford Reservation. 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.
  5. ^ "$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford". Tri-City Herald. January 26, 2018. Archived from the original on 2018-02-03. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  6. ^ King, Anna (September 6, 2016). "Washington State Wildfire Destroys Sensitive Habitat On National Land". WBUR-FM / Northwest News Network. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  7. ^ "Yakima area wildfire is 90 percent contained". Seattle Times. 2016-08-04. Archived from the original on 2016-08-06. Retrieved 2022-04-24. Yakima Herald-Republic