Saunders Fire
The Saunders Fire burned 2,285 acres in Oregon, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to August 9, 1984.
- Size
- 2,285 acres
- Ignition
- August 9, 1984
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,285 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.963, -120.215.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,285 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,862 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 9, 1984
- State
- Oregon
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORLAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4296312021419840809
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Other
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rabbit 2 Fire | 35,420 | Aug 9, 1984 | |
| Folly Farm Fire | 16,890 | Aug 4, 1984 | |
| Coyote Fire | 13,572 | Aug 9, 1984 | |
| Sand Hill Fire | 11,978 | Jul 5, 1984 | |
| Glass Bu Fire | 10,674 | Aug 10, 1984 | |
| Sheep Camp Fire | 9,702 | Aug 10, 1984 | |
| Buffalo Fire | 8,532 | Aug 9, 1984 | |
| Abert Fire | 8,046 | Aug 9, 1984 | |
| Rock Crk Fire | 7,967 | ||
| L Juniper Fire | 5,324 | Aug 4, 1984 | |
| Glass Butte Fire | 5,294 | ||
| Pole Creek Fire | 4,702 | Jul 9, 1984 |
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. 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.