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Wildfire — Yavapai County Mountains, Arizona

June 28, 2013 · NOAA Storm Events record

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Area

Yavapai County Mountains

Event narrative (NOAA)

The Yarnell Hill Fire was started by lightning around 536 PM on Friday June 28 about 3.5 miles west of Yarnell. The fire grew to about 6 acres by Saturday morning. Strong outflow winds form a thunderstorm northeast of Prescott hit the fire Sunday afternoon. The wind caused the fire to blow up and it overtook 19 Granite Mountain Hot Shots. They all perished. The fire grew to around 8,300 acres by the end of June (the final size was 8,400 acres). The Yavapai County Sheriff's Office said that 127 buildings in Yarnell and two in Peeples Valley were destroyed in the fire. ||Officials shut down 25 miles of Arizona State Route 89 shortly after the fire started. All of Yarnell was evacuated and part of Peeples Valley was evacuated (at least 600 people total). The Red Cross said that 351 people spe

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Source: NOAA/NCEI Storm Events Database. Deaths and injuries are those NOAA classifies as direct. Damage is the reporting office's estimate at the time and is not inflation-adjusted. This is a catalogue record, not a forecast.