2021 Washington wildfires

2021 Washington wildfires
Date(s)March 2021–October 2021
Statewide state of emergency: July 6, 2021[1]
Statistics
Total firesOver 836 (as of late July)
Total areaOver 484,045 acres (195,886 ha) (as of August 15)
Impacts
Structures destroyed
  • 9 homes
Season
← 2020
2022 →

The 2021 Washington wildfire season officially began in March 2021. By late April, all of Eastern Washington had been classified by the United States Drought Monitor as "abnormally dry" with moderate to severe drought conditions.[2] The state had more than 630 wildfires by the first week of July, on par with the state's record 2015 wildfire season.[3]

Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) reported the end of the fire season by October 12,[4] and the DNR and the Northwest Interargency Fire Center reported zero fires in the state on October 14.[5]

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference state-of-emergency was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Callie Craighead (April 29, 2021). "Wildfire concerns loom with dry weather outlook in Washington". Seattle P-I. Retrieved June 14, 2021.
  3. ^ "State: 2021 Shaping up as Bad Wildfire Season in Washington". Associated Press. July 8, 2021.
  4. ^ Lauren Gallup (October 12, 2021). "Is fire season year-round now". Northwest Public Radio.
  5. ^ Washington State DNR Wildfire [@waDNR_fire] (October 15, 2021). "Good news! Zero large fires in Washington state right now" (Tweet) – via Twitter.