Wildfires of 1988

South Hart Fire

1988OregonWildfire

The South Hart Fire burned 2,807 acres in Oregon, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to March 14, 1988.

Size
2,807 acres
Ignition
March 14, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,807 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.462, -119.841.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,807 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,109 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
March 14, 1988
State
Oregon
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORLAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4246211984119880314
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Perimeter map method
Hand Sketch

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 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Teepee Butte Fire59,518Aug 25, 1988
Paulina Fire13,410Aug 4, 1988
Troy Fire8,334Aug 25, 1988
Fire 887710815,170Sep 12, 1988
Shady Beach Fire2,686Sep 12, 1988
Walker Mtn Fire2,300Aug 23, 1988
Glass B Fire2,115Sep 7, 1988
Pleasnt Cr Fire1,864Aug 23, 1988
Prophecy Fire1,854Aug 24, 1988
Shirttail Fire1,809Aug 29, 1988
Limekilm Fire1,658
Mvd Priday Fire1,342Aug 23, 1988

Every fire of 1988 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.