Butte Creek Fire
The Butte Creek Fire burned 1,400 acres in Oregon, in 1993. It was discovered on June 20, 1993, and contained on June 22, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,400 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 1993
- Contained
- June 22, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,098 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.050, -120.484.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,098 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,528 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 1993, 5:07 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 22, 1993, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Prineville District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORPRD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4506112051519930620
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-35833
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 19931
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 Fingers Fire | 2,560 | Aug 4, 1993 | Natural |
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.