Tanky Fire
The Tanky Fire burned 6,886 acres in Oregon, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 7, 1985.
- Size
- 6,886 acres
- Ignition
- July 7, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,886 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.854, -117.451.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,886 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 12,024 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 7, 1985
- State
- Oregon
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORVAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4285411745119850707
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- 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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Angel Fire | 38,425 | Jun 23, 1985 | |
| Harney Lk Fire | 37,767 | ||
| Corbin Fire | 31,933 | Jun 23, 1985 | |
| Boney Fire | 20,633 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| Big Rock Fire | 20,086 | Jun 22, 1985 | |
| Brown Cy Fire | 18,381 | ||
| Lone Tree Fire | 17,041 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| China Glch Fire | 9,825 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| Bustermann Fire | 9,228 | ||
| Sebree Fire | 8,005 | ||
| Anderson Fire | 7,020 | ||
| Ibex Bu Fire | 5,836 | Aug 6, 1985 |
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.