Wildfires of 1988

Teepee Butte Fire

1988OregonWildfire

The Teepee Butte Fire burned 59,518 acres in Oregon, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to August 25, 1988.

Size
59,518 acres
Ignition
August 25, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 59,518 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.858, -116.910.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
59,518 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
59,757 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 25, 1988
State
Oregon
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORWWF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1988-ORWWF-000120
MTBS fire identifier
OR4585811691019880825
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
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 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Paulina Fire13,410Aug 4, 1988
Troy Fire8,334Aug 25, 1988
Fire 887710815,170Sep 12, 1988
South Hart Fire2,807Mar 14, 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.