Wildfires of 1939

Big Cow Fire

1939OregonWildfire

The Big Cow Fire burned 31,116 acres in Oregon, in 1939. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
31,116 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 31,116 acres, mapped by other. Middle of the perimeter, 44.372, -118.397.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
31,116 acres
State
Oregon
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORMAF
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Other

Other large fires in Oregon in 19392

FireAcresStartCause
Roberts Creek Fire1,806
Widows Creek Fire1,125

Every fire of 1939 Oregon fire history

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.