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Fire Season 2000 Statistics
[Fires and Acres by Cause and Agency] [Prescribed Fires and Acres] [Suppression Costs]
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End of Year Fires and Acres by Cause and Agency
| Cause | BLM | BIA | FWS | NPS | USDA FS | State/ Private |
Totals | |
| Naturally Caused | ||||||||
| Lightning | Fires | 2,567 | 1,293 | 185 | 342 | 6,371 | 7,659 | 18,417 |
| Acres | 1,355,209 | 258,658 | 217,162 | 101,013 | 1,676,414 | 1,218,187 | 4,826,643 | |
| Human Caused | ||||||||
| Campfire | Fires | 64 | 109 | 47 | 56 | 1,260 | 1,876 | 3,412 |
| Acres | 84,152 | 1,401 | 1,931 | 16,082 | 52,467 | 18,953 | 174,986 | |
| Smoking | Fires | 23 | 160 | 31 | 23 | 237 | 3,418 | 3,892 |
| Acres | 4,038 | 20,295 | 15,098 | 83 | 15,930 | 44,951 | 100,395 | |
| Incendiary | Fires | 57 | 707 | 89 | 61 | 817 | 25,259 | 26,990 |
| Acres | 60,294 | 18,465 | 6,609 | 13,522 | 157,144 | 847,914 | 1,103,948 | |
| Equipment | Fires | 121 | 180 | 75 | 36 | 194 | 10,107 | 10,713 |
| Acres | 16,856 | 7,712 | 97,479 | 1,387 | 8,311 | 308,681 | 440,426 | |
| Railroads | Fires | 10 | 10 | 12 | 13 | 56 | 2,711 | 2,812 |
| Acres | 86 | 47 | 476 | 338 | 55,561 | 85,260 | 141,768 | |
| Juveniles | Fires | 11 | 631 | 13 | 14 | 65 | 3,193 | 3,927 |
| Acres | 117 | 14,762 | 1,041 | 80 | 211 | 12,729 | 28,940 | |
| Misc. | Fires | 257 | 1,440 | 177 | 138 | 866 | 49,786 | 52,664 |
| Acres | 50,112 | 190,121 | 8,800 | 18,142 | 172,872 | 1,165,084 | 1,605,131 | |
| GRAND TOTALS | ||||||||
|
Natural and Human |
Fires | 3,110 | 4,530 | 629 | 683 | 9,866 | 104,009 | 122,827 |
| Acres | 1,570,864 | 511,461 | 348,596 | 150,647 | 2,138,910 | 3,701,758 | 8,422,237 | |
| BLM = Bureau of Land Management | BIA = Bureau of Indian Affairs | FWS = US Fish and Wildlife Service | NPS = National Park Service | USDA FS = Forest Service | State/Private = State Owned and Private Lands |
Prescribed Fires and Acres for Federal Agencies
| Federal Agency | Total Fires | Acres Treated | |
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | |||
| Bureau of Land Management | 485 | 125,600 | |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | 1,068 | 201,052 | |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | 33 | 3,353 | |
| National Park Service | 111 | 19,072 | |
| DOI Subtotal | |||
| Department of Agriculture (USDA) | |||
| Forest Service | 2,954 | 728,237 | |
| Grand Total | 4,651 | 1,077,314 | |
Suppression Costs for Federal Agencies
| Federal Agency | Total Suppression | |
| Department of the Interior (DOI) | ||
| Bureau of Land Management | $180,567,000 | |
| U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service | $ 9,417,000 | |
| Bureau of Indian Affairs | $ 93,042,000 | |
| National Park Service | $ 53,341,000 | |
| DOI Subtotal | $ 336,367,000 | |
| Department of Agriculture (USDA) | ||
| Forest Service | $ 1,026,000,000 | |
| Grand Total | $ 1,362,367,000 | |