Wildfires of 1996

Andrews Saloon Fire

1996OregonWildfire

The Andrews Saloon Fire burned 2,255 acres in Oregon, in 1996. It was discovered on July 2, 1996, and contained on July 3, 1996. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.

Size
2,255 acres
Discovered
July 2, 1996
Contained
July 3, 1996
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,242 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.473, -118.618.

The record

Reported final size
2,255 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,242 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,256 acres
Discovered
July 2, 1996, 1:48 p.m. local time
Contained
July 3, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Burns District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORBUD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4245611862219960702
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-18896

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 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Simnasho Fire118,230Aug 10, 1996Human
Donnybrook Fire100,591
Bogus Creek Fire57,160Jul 30, 1996Natural
Salt Complex (Salt Creek) Fire52,600Aug 2, 1996Natural
Tower Fire50,633Aug 14, 1996Natural
Bull Complex (Summit) Fire37,835Aug 13, 1996Natural
Cow Hollow Complex (Cow Hollow) Fire31,295Aug 12, 1996Natural
Wheeler Point Fire22,000Aug 10, 1996Human
Skeleton-Evans West (Skeleton) Fire17,739Aug 23, 1996Natural
2 Horse Fire17,378
Spring Fire16,358Aug 13, 1996Natural
Hat Butte Fire13,087Aug 26, 1996Natural

Every fire of 1996 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.