Walker Mtn Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,300 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.542, -123.334.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

2,300 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

2,019 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

August 23, 1988

State

Oregon

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

OR4254212333419880823

MTBS assessment

Extended

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.

Every fire of 1988 Oregon fire history

• Merlin, OR5 miles west of the fire
• Grants Pass, OR7 miles south of the fire
• Fruitdale, OR8 miles south of the fire
• Redwood, OR9 miles south of the fire
• Rogue River, OR11 miles southeast of the fire
• New Hope, OR13 miles south of the fire

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.