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Old 05-09-2019, 11:37 AM
 
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Speaking of today's the first red flag warning of the year, unusual in May.
https://katu.com/news/local/red-flag...on-and-evening
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Old 05-09-2019, 06:47 PM
 
Location: Vancouver, WA
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Looks like some hot weather over the weekend followed by a cooling trend (60s/70s) along with some rain. That should help some with this early season dryness in the PNW.

Its been really dry in CA lately after one of the wettest winters we've had. That followed by the worst fire season in state history - most destructive and deadliest last year. The Camp fire wiped out Paradise so fast it was mind boggling. Hopefully this summer will not be anywhere near as bad. But there's no way to know when and where the next town will be hit by a big fire.

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Old 05-11-2019, 08:46 AM
 
Location: We_tside PNW (Columbia Gorge) / CO / SA TX / Thailand
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Looks like some hot weather over the weekend followed by a cooling trend (60s/70s) along with some rain. That should help some with this early season dryness in the PNW.

... the worst fire season in state history - most destructive and deadliest last year. ...

Derek
SWWA is home to the largest (and fastest) burning single wildfire in WA history (1902 Yacolt burn). 238,000 acres in 1.5 days. Total acreage was only recently exceeded by 'complex' fires (Merged fires in NE & C WA).

Yacolt burn area was sparsely populated at the time (146 homes burned). But today that same region is ripe for a fire and populated by 10,000+ homes. High winds and steep terrain would exclude aircraft (as happened in the Columbia Gorge fire 2 yrs ago).

Camp Fire (Paradise) burned 135,000 acres in 17 days,

Get Defensible Space.

100% of Skamania County has been surveyed for Defensible Space, and if your home is marked RED on fire maps... you will NOT be protected (so firefighters don't get trapped). Clark has surveyed some areas, but not yet completed. If your home is near a National Forest, DNR may show up to 'protect-their-forest' (from your home fire), but they are not obligated to save your home.
https://www.historylink.org/File/5196
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Old 05-11-2019, 10:59 AM
 
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SWWA is home to the largest (and fastest) burning single wildfire in WA history (1902 Yacolt burn). 238,000 acres in 1.5 days. Total acreage was only recently exceeded by 'complex' fires (Merged fires in NE & C WA).

Yacolt burn area was sparsely populated at the time (146 homes burned). But today that same region is ripe for a fire and populated by 10,000+ homes. High winds and steep terrain would exclude aircraft (as happened in the Columbia Gorge fire 2 yrs ago).

Camp Fire (Paradise) burned 135,000 acres in 17 days,

Get Defensible Space.

100% of Skamania County has been surveyed for Defensible Space, and if your home is marked RED on fire maps... you will NOT be protected (so firefighters don't get trapped). Clark has surveyed some areas, but not yet completed. If your home is near a National Forest, DNR may show up to 'protect-their-forest' (from your home fire), but they are not obligated to save your home.
https://www.historylink.org/File/5196
This is a good point. I think a lot of people new to the area don't think of SWWA as being fire prone and also don't understand how remote and rugged some of the land is in eastern Clark and Skamania counties. I'm guessing that people tend to be somewhat more aware of fire danger when moving into places like Colorado and California that tend to be hotter and more arid.

These droughts and extreme fire hazards tend to creep up on you. That 5 acre plot on a hillside back in the woods someplace may not be the best place to be next time we have a big fire.
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Old 05-11-2019, 11:02 AM
 
Location: WA
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100% of Skamania County has been surveyed for Defensible Space, and if your home is marked RED on fire maps... you will NOT be protected (so firefighters don't get trapped). Clark has surveyed some areas, but not yet completed. If your home is near a National Forest, DNR may show up to 'protect-their-forest' (from your home fire), but they are not obligated to save your home.
https://www.historylink.org/File/5196
You may not be protected regardless. It really depends on available resources. Rarely is there just one fire that happens to be near someone's house. Sometimes half the state is ablaze and they have to do triage and make deployment decisions based on priorities that may not include your house, even if it isn't in a so-called protected zone. A lot of people in Central WA found that out the hard way a couple of years ago when all those fires happened in semi-populated areas near Leavenworth.
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Old 05-16-2019, 10:53 AM
 
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did not last back to the gloomy wet
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