Silver Fire
The Silver Fire burned 96,635 acres in Oregon, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to August 30, 1987.
- Size
- 96,635 acres
- Ignition
- August 30, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 96,635 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.419, -123.928.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 96,635 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 97,812 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 30, 1987
- State
- Oregon
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4236212395219870830
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- DST filled empty item fields from sis_firehis POINTS cover.
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 198712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ryder Creek Fire | 16,260 | Aug 15, 1987 | |
| Howard Crk Fire | 13,463 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Bland Mtn Fire | 10,066 | Jul 15, 1987 | |
| Sykes Crk Fire | 9,579 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Jimbo Fire | 6,975 | Aug 31, 1987 | |
| Canyon Mt Fire | 5,954 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Horse Mtn Fire | 5,300 | Aug 31, 1987 | |
| E. Side Burnt Peak Fire | 4,927 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| 10 Mile Fire | 4,577 | Jul 27, 1987 | |
| Cowboy Fire | 4,536 | Aug 31, 1987 | |
| Upper Myrtle Creek Fire | 3,988 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Savage Crk Fire | 3,880 | Aug 30, 1987 |
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.