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2020 Annual Fire Report Northwest Annual Fire Report 2020 Northwest Interagency Coordination Center Portland, OR Page intentionally left blank TABLE of CONTENTS | NWCC Mission TABLE of CONTENTS TABLE of CONTENTS............................................................................................................... 1 SUMMARY INFORMATION ..................................................................................................... 3 NWCC Mission................................................................................................................................3 NWCC Annual Fire Report General Information ...............................................................................3 NWCC ACCOMPLISHMENTS ................................................................................................... 4 A Review of 2020 ...........................................................................................................................4 Overview ............................................................................................................................................................... 4 NWCC Staff & Organization .................................................................................................................................. 5 Organization: Administration ................................................................................................................................ 5 FIRE SEASON OVERVIEW ...................................................................................................... 13 Fire Season Climate Summary ....................................................................................................... 13 Seasonal Fire Danger Summary ..................................................................................................... 13 Fire Season Monthly Review ......................................................................................................... 14 March .................................................................................................................................................................. 14 April ..................................................................................................................................................................... 14 May ..................................................................................................................................................................... 15 June ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16 July ...................................................................................................................................................................... 17 August ................................................................................................................................................................. 18 September .......................................................................................................................................................... 19 NW Lightning Summary ...................................................................................................................................... 22 NW Preparedness Review ............................................................................................................. 23 FIRE STATISTICS & MAPS ...................................................................................................... 24 2020 NW Fires & Acres ................................................................................................................. 24 Current & Historical Fires & Acres (Oregon & Washington) ............................................................................... 25 Fires & Acres by Cause ........................................................................................................................................ 27 NW 2020 Incident Summary ......................................................................................................... 29 NW 2020 Large Incident Summary ................................................................................................ 31 NW 2020 Incident Location Maps ................................................................................................. 33 RESOURCE INFORMATION & STATISTICS .............................................................................. 35 NW Incident Management Teams Assignment History .................................................................. 35 All IMTs Total Days Assigned (NIMO, AC, Type 1 & Type 2)................................................................................ 35 Portland NIMO .................................................................................................................................................... 35 -1- TABLE of CONTENTS | NWCC Mission Area Command ................................................................................................................................................... 35 Northwest Type 1 ............................................................................................................................................... 35 ODF Type 1 .......................................................................................................................................................... 36 Northwest Type 2 ............................................................................................................................................... 36 Resource Order Summary ............................................................................................................. 37 NW Interagency Hotshot Crews .................................................................................................... 38 NW Smokejumpers....................................................................................................................... 39 North Cascades Smokejumpers .......................................................................................................................... 39 Redmond Smokejumpers .................................................................................................................................... 39 NW Rappel Aircraft ...................................................................................................................... 40 Redmond Air Tanker Base ............................................................................................................ 41 2020 Year End Totals .......................................................................................................................................... 41 APPENDIX............................................................................................................................ 42 Northwest Energy Release Component by PSA .............................................................................. 42 NW Situation Report .................................................................................................................... 44 NW Dispatch Centers .................................................................................................................... 49 NW Federal & State Agency Identifiers ......................................................................................... 50 NW Local Unit Identifiers .............................................................................................................. 50 -2- SUMMARY INFORMATION | NWCC Mission SUMMARY INFORMATION NWCC Mission The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center (NWCC) is the Geographic Area Coordination Center (GACC) for the Northwest Region which includes the states of Oregon and Washington. NWCC serves as the focal point for interagency resource coordination, logistics support, aviation support and predictive services for all state and federal agencies involved in wildland fire management and suppression in the geographic area. NWCC Annual Fire Report General Information The Northwest Interagency Coordination Center (NWCC) is responsible for compiling fire reports for all large wildland fires in Oregon and Washington on lands administered by the following five federal agencies; BLM, BIA, USFS, FWS, NPS, and two state agencies; ODF and DNR (for acronyms, see Appendix, NW Federal & State Agency Identifiers). A large fire is defined as greater than 100 acres in forest fuel types, and greater than 300 acres in shrub and grass fuel types. Annual figures of total fire starts, regardless of size, and acres burned for individual units are also included. Statistics used in this report were gathered from the Fire and Aviation Management Web Applications (FAMWEB) system (which includes the Situation Report and Incident Status Summary (ICS-209) programs) and from the Interagency Resource Ordering Capability (IROC). The statistics presented here are intended to provide a geographic area perspective of annual fire activity and may not reflect official figures for a specific agency. This document is available electronically at the NWCC web page: gacc.nifc.gov/nwcc/ under the Intelligence link. Previous year annual reports can be found under the NWCC Publications link. Disclaimer: The figures in this report provide general reporting information and overall accuracy cannot be guaranteed. Any determinations, policy, or subsequent reports using this information should
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