Wildfires of 1992

Durbin Cr Fire

1992OregonWildfire

The Durbin Cr Fire burned 1,380 acres in Oregon, in 1992. It was discovered on August 14, 1992, and contained on August 15, 1992. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,380 acres
Discovered
August 14, 1992
Contained
August 15, 1992
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,421 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.333, -117.293.

The record

Reported final size
1,380 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,421 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,269 acres
Discovered
August 14, 1992, 2:25 a.m. local time
Contained
August 15, 1992, 2:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Vale District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORVAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4432711729019920814
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-41163
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.

Other large fires in Oregon in 199212

FireAcresStartCause
Lone Pine Fire30,809Aug 2, 1992Human
Robinson Spring Fire10,706Sep 15, 1992Natural
East Evans Fire10,135Aug 3, 1992Human
Chicken Sp Fire9,980Jul 18, 1992Natural
Alvord Fire7,139Jun 28, 1992Human
Fort Spring Fire3,206Aug 19, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire3,086Aug 3, 1992
Tablerock Fire2,845Jul 19, 1992Natural
Home Cr Fire2,068
Buckhollow Fire2,000Jul 18, 1992Natural
Mahogney M Fire1,824Sep 11, 1992Natural
Home Cr Fire1,595Aug 14, 1992Natural

Every fire of 1992 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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.