Moolack Complex (Charlton) Fire
The Moolack Complex (Charlton) Fire burned 10,400 acres in Oregon, in 1996. It was discovered on August 23, 1996, and contained on October 10, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,400 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 1996
- Contained
- October 10, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,199 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.797, -122.035.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,400 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,199 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,644 acres
- Discovered
- August 23, 1996, 7:01 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 10, 1996, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Willamette National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORWIF
- Part of
- Moolack Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-ORWIF-000100
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4378612201119960823
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-317655
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Simnasho Fire | 118,230 | Aug 10, 1996 | Human |
| Donnybrook Fire | 100,591 | ||
| Bogus Creek Fire | 57,160 | Jul 30, 1996 | Natural |
| Salt Complex (Salt Creek) Fire | 52,600 | Aug 2, 1996 | Natural |
| Tower Fire | 50,633 | Aug 14, 1996 | Natural |
| Bull Complex (Summit) Fire | 37,835 | Aug 13, 1996 | Natural |
| Cow Hollow Complex (Cow Hollow) Fire | 31,295 | Aug 12, 1996 | Natural |
| Wheeler Point Fire | 22,000 | Aug 10, 1996 | Human |
| Skeleton-Evans West (Skeleton) Fire | 17,739 | Aug 23, 1996 | Natural |
| 2 Horse Fire | 17,378 | ||
| Spring Fire | 16,358 | Aug 13, 1996 | Natural |
| Hat Butte Fire | 13,087 | Aug 26, 1996 | 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.