Forest Fires

Source: Department of Natural Resources

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FOREST FIRES¹
Calendar Year	State Total		USFS²		DNR³		BIA⁴
Calendar Year	Number of Fires	Acres Burned	Number of Fires	Acres Burned	Number of Fires	Acres Burned	Number of Fires	Acres Burned
1986	1,580	11,966	341	4,504	1,078	2,644	161	4,818
1987	2,204	23,675	424	3,472	1,582	9,915	198	10,288
1988	1,478	95,007	254	50,166	1,072	26,999	152	17,842
1989	1,946	14,346	362	2,318	1,334	8,708	250	3,320
1990	2,104	17,094	735	6,606	1,142	8,762	227	1,726
1991	1,862	48,914	438	2,328	1,174	40,368	250	6,218
1992	1,843	35,752	449	1,251	1,084	10,002	310	24,499
1993	1,026	4,458	250	884	641	2,203	135	1,371
1994	2,133	298,463	608	203,165	1,212	79,407	313	15,897
1995	1,313	5,627	261	1,091	874	3,900	178	636
1996	1,150	35,239	191	4,004	811	10,885	148	20,350
1997	986	5,915	193	582	657	4,650	136	683
1998	1,605	54,622	407	9,340	991	23,511	207	21,771
1999	1,471	19,677	375	1,422	851	6,315	245	11,941
2000	1,102	252,811	267	2,324	615	17,043	213	233,444
2001	1,223	204,525	260	94,338	789	17,510	174	92,677
2002	1,404	72,064	322	50,164	904	10,083	178	11,817
2003	1,304	137,687	314	124,014	932	12,232	58	1,441
2004	1,586	80,131	423	63,304	866	6,976	297	9,851
2005	2,868	210,148	191	1,967	645	3,579	71	11,291
2006	1,701	346,542	308	250,999	1,021	48,802	239	4,338
2007⁵	1,138	204,297	182	13,022	671	21,972	203	35,872

¹Does not include National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, and Bureau of Land Management lands.
²Fires on lands within the jurisdiction of the United States Forest Service.
³Fires on lands within the jurisdiction of the Department of Natural Resources.
⁴Fires on lands within the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the Colville, Yakama, Spokane, and Puget Sound and Olympic Peninsula agencies' nation lands.
⁵Incomplete year information. Figures may change if any late season fires occur.