Wildfires of 1984

Folly Farm Fire

1984OregonWildfire

The Folly Farm Fire burned 16,890 acres in Oregon, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to August 4, 1984.

Size
16,890 acres
Ignition
August 4, 1984

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,890 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.982, -118.167.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
16,890 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
914 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 4, 1984
State
Oregon
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORBUD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4300911815919840804
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Oregon in 198412

FireAcresStartCause
Rabbit 2 Fire35,420Aug 9, 1984
Coyote Fire13,572Aug 9, 1984
Sand Hill Fire11,978Jul 5, 1984
Glass Bu Fire10,674Aug 10, 1984
Sheep Camp Fire9,702Aug 10, 1984
Buffalo Fire8,532Aug 9, 1984
Abert Fire8,046Aug 9, 1984
Rock Crk Fire7,967
L Juniper Fire5,324Aug 4, 1984
Glass Butte Fire5,294
Pole Creek Fire4,702Jul 9, 1984
Egli Rim Fire3,812

Every fire of 1984 Oregon fire history

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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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.