Sheep Mountain Fire
The Sheep Mountain Fire burned 9,986 acres in Oregon, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to August 6, 1990.
- Size
- 9,986 acres
- Ignition
- August 6, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,986 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.236, -118.466.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,986 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,981 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 6, 1990
- State
- Oregon
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORMAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1990-ORMAF-000135
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4423611846619900806
- 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 199012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pine Springs Basin Fire | 71,241 | Aug 6, 1990 | |
| Buck Springs Fire | 20,977 | Aug 6, 1990 | |
| Buck Spr Fire | 16,020 | ||
| Corral Basin Fire | 12,391 | Jul 13, 1990 | |
| Hogwild Fire | 7,492 | Jul 12, 1990 | |
| Whiting Springs Fire | 5,445 | Aug 6, 1990 | |
| Awbrey Hall Fire | 3,523 | Aug 4, 1990 | |
| Diamond Fire | 3,290 | Oct 16, 1990 | |
| Delicious Fire | 2,132 | Jul 12, 1990 | |
| Horse Camp Fire | 2,131 | Jul 12, 1990 | |
| Chrome Fire | 1,489 | Oct 3, 1990 | |
| Trimbly Cr Fire | 1,353 | Aug 11, 1990 |
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.