Wildfires of 1985

Angel Fire

1985OregonWildfire

The Angel Fire burned 38,425 acres in Oregon, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 1985.

Size
38,425 acres
Ignition
June 23, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 38,425 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.127, -117.817.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
38,425 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
32,579 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 23, 1985
State
Oregon
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORVAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4212611781719850623
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Perimeter map method
Digitized-Topo

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 198512

FireAcresStartCause
Harney Lk Fire37,767
Corbin Fire31,933Jun 23, 1985
Boney Fire20,633Jul 7, 1985
Big Rock Fire20,086Jun 22, 1985
Brown Cy Fire18,381
Lone Tree Fire17,041Jul 7, 1985
China Glch Fire9,825Jul 7, 1985
Bustermann Fire9,228
Sebree Fire8,005
Anderson Fire7,020
Tanky Fire6,886Jul 7, 1985
Ibex Bu Fire5,836Aug 6, 1985

Every fire of 1985 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. 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.