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Range 12 fire
Date(s)	July 31, 2017 (2017-07-31)
Location	Benton County and Yakima County, Washington
Coordinates	46.441°N 119.724°W / 46.441; -119.724
Statistics
Burned area	128,272 acres (51,910 ha)
Impacts
Damage	Unknown
Map
Location of fire in Washington
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The Range 12 Fire was started on July 31, 2016 in eastern Washington. It quickly grew to over 177,000 acres (72,000 ha) to cover parts of Benton county, Yakima county, and Grant county (forcing some residents of the city of Prosser to evacuate their homes) before the fire was contained in early August. The fire was the third in recent years to affect the area surrounding the Hanford Reach National Monument and the Arid Lands Ecology Reserve, but was contained through the use of controlled burns.

Related articles

• Template:Washington wildfires -- Washington wildfire articles.
• Rattlesnake Hills
• Rattlesnake Mountain (Benton County, Washington)
• Places with television stations to look for:
  • Yakima, Washington
  • Tri-Cities, Washington
  • Spokane, Washington
  • Eastern Washington

Other sources

• Remote Sensing (journal)
  • Ba, Rui; Song, Weiguo; Li, Xiaolian; Xie, Zixi; Lo, Siuming (2019-02-06). "Integration of Multiple Spectral Indices and a Neural Network for Burned Area Mapping Based on MODIS Data". Remote Sensing. 11 (3): 326. doi:10.3390/rs11030326. ISSN 2072-4292.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: unflagged free DOI (link)
• University of Washington
  • "Monitoring Impacts to Rare Plant Populations from Range 12 Fire - UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON". portal.nifa.usda.gov. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
• Vice (magazine)
  • "To Prevent a Nuclear Disaster, Washington Firefighters Burned a Whole Mountain". Vice (magazine). Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  • "The raging inferno, called the Range 12 Fire, threatened to summit Washington's Rattlesnake Mountain, and creep down the other side toward the Hanford Nuclear Site, an aging nuclear production complex that sits along the Columbia River."
• Newsweek
  • "Nuclear Waste Leaking at 'American Fukushima' in Northwest". Newsweek. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
• KIMA-TV — Yakima, Washington
  • "Range 12 Fire: 90 percent contained,176,000 acres burned in Yakima, Benton Counties". KIMA. 2016-08-02. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  • ^^This citation contains helpful pictures and a map, and points out that the fire started at the Yakima Training Center.
• KEPR-TV
  • "Range 12 Fire Map: Officials say 70,000 acres burning in Yakima, Benton Counties". KEPR-TV. 2016-08-01. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  • Link to map provided by KEPR-TV on August 1, when the fire was still out of control north of Sunnyside, Washington
• Tri-Cities Herald
  • "$15M lawsuit filed over wildfire that threatened Hanford". Tri-Cities Herald. January 26, 2018. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  • Story about the lawsuit filed a couple of years after the fire.
  • Quoting the article: "The late July day was hot, dry and windy. But the training with live ammunition at the Yakima Training Center went ahead as usual. A gunner fired at a target and the burst of ammunition ricocheted onto the ridge line, sparking a fire that spread across 275 square miles and threatened the Hanford nuclear reservation, according to a lawsuit filed this week in federal court. Lower Yakima Valley cattle ranchers are suing the Department of Defense for nearly $15 million for damage to their land and livelihood. They say the U.S. Army acted recklessly in allowing training exercises to proceed on July 30, 2016, the day the Range 12 Fire started, despite a red flag fire warning." (see also: Yakima Training Center)
• Justia
  • "Anderson et al v. United States of America et al". Justia Dockets & Filings. Archived from the original on 2022-04-22. Retrieved 2022-04-22.
  • This contains the Justia archives for the case that the Anderson et al brought against the United States Army.