Wildfires of 1991

Turner Ck Fire

1991OregonWildfire

The Turner Ck Fire burned 7,268 acres in Oregon, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to August 31, 1991.

Size
7,268 acres
Ignition
August 31, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,268 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.151, -117.555.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
7,268 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,655 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 31, 1991
State
Oregon
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORVAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4415111755519910831
MTBS assessment
Initial
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 19915

FireAcresStartCause
Juniper Canyon Fire7,997Aug 1, 1991
Warner Creek Fire6,830Oct 10, 1991
Faye Fire2,577Feb 27, 1991
91953M33 Fire1,360Sep 17, 1991
Stevens Canyon Fire1,080

Every fire of 1991 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.