Wildfires of 1990

Delicious Fire

1990OregonWildfire

The Delicious Fire burned 2,132 acres in Oregon, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 12, 1990.

Size
2,132 acres
Ignition
July 12, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,132 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.196, -121.511.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,132 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,042 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 12, 1990
State
Oregon
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORPRD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4419612151119900712
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
Other
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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 199012

FireAcresStartCause
Pine Springs Basin Fire71,241Aug 6, 1990
Buck Springs Fire20,977Aug 6, 1990
Buck Spr Fire16,020
Corral Basin Fire12,391Jul 13, 1990
Sheep Mountain Fire9,986Aug 6, 1990
Hogwild Fire7,492Jul 12, 1990
Whiting Springs Fire5,445Aug 6, 1990
Awbrey Hall Fire3,523Aug 4, 1990
Diamond Fire3,290Oct 16, 1990
Horse Camp Fire2,131Jul 12, 1990
Chrome Fire1,489Oct 3, 1990
Trimbly Cr Fire1,353Aug 11, 1990

Every fire of 1990 Oregon fire history

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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.