Wildfires of 1992

Unnamed Fire

1992OregonWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 900 acres in Oregon, in 1992. It was discovered on August 20, 1992, and contained on August 22, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
900 acres
Discovered
August 20, 1992
Contained
August 22, 1992
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,086 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.405, -116.628.

The record

Reported final size
900 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,086 acres
Discovered
August 20, 1992, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
August 22, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4541211663119920820
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-273384

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

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.