Spring Fire
The Spring Fire burned 16,358 acres in Oregon, in 1996. It was discovered on August 13, 1996, and contained on October 15, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 16,358 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 1996
- Contained
- October 15, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 15,949 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.035, -122.535.
The record
- Reported final size
- 16,358 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 15,949 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 16,328 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 1996, 5:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 15, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Umpqua National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORUPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4335612252819960813
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-320803
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Forest generated FIRE_NAME, FIRE_YEAR, others filled by GIS.
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 | ||
| Hat Butte Fire | 13,087 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Rocky Ford Fire | 10,987 | Jul 30, 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.