Wildfires of 1994

Hull Mountain Fire

1994OregonWildfire

The Hull Mountain Fire burned 2,898 acres in Oregon, in 1994. It was discovered on August 23, 1994, and contained on August 31, 1994. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
2,898 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1994
Contained
August 31, 1994
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,488 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.584, -123.001.

The record

Reported final size
2,898 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,488 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
7,499 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1994, 2:20 p.m. local time
Contained
August 31, 1994, 7:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Medford District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4254512298419940823
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-30739
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 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Swamp Creek Fire44,140Aug 2, 1994Natural
Leclaire Fire33,490Jul 25, 1994Human
Twin Lakes Fire22,330Aug 28, 1994Natural
Twin Lakes Fire21,975
Thirtymile Fire13,800Aug 4, 1994Natural
Boundary Fire11,081Aug 10, 1994Natural
Smithcanyn Fire10,400Jul 9, 1994Natural
Little Malheur Fire10,325
Little Malheur Complex (Ironside) Fire10,317Aug 28, 1994Natural
East Evans Fire10,141
Littlferry Fire10,050Jul 26, 1994Natural
Ferrycanyn Fire9,006Jun 25, 1994Human

Every fire of 1994 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.