Wildfires of 1990

Squaw Flat Fire

1990OregonWildfire

The Squaw Flat Fire burned 1,335 acres in Oregon, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to August 6, 1990.

Size
1,335 acres
Ignition
August 6, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,335 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.826, -119.552.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,335 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,365 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 6, 1990
State
Oregon
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORMAF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1990-ORMAF-000604
MTBS fire identifier
OR4383111954619900806
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Other
Note on the perimeter
From old Snow Mountain district library

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
Delicious Fire2,132Jul 12, 1990
Horse Camp Fire2,131Jul 12, 1990
Chrome Fire1,489Oct 3, 1990

Every fire of 1990 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.