Wildfires of 1940

Swan Fire

1940OregonWildfire

The Swan Fire burned 1,211 acres in Oregon, in 1940. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,211 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,211 acres, mapped by other. Middle of the perimeter, 42.407, -121.660.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,211 acres
State
Oregon
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Other

Other large fires in Oregon in 19403

FireAcresStartCause
Wocus Bay Fire2,903
Unnamed Fire2,798
Fremont Siding Fire1,947

Every fire of 1940 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.