Wildfires of 1997

Mann Lake Fire

1997OregonWildfire

The Mann Lake Fire burned 1,140 acres in Oregon, in 1997. It was discovered on August 23, 1997, and contained on August 25, 1997. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,140 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1997
Contained
August 25, 1997
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,107 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.743, -118.483.

The record

Reported final size
1,140 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,107 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,140 acres
Discovered
August 23, 1997, 1:59 p.m. local time
Contained
August 25, 1997, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
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
OR4275811848419970823
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-12173

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 19977

FireAcresStartCause
Cottonwood Creek Fire4,717
Cottonwood Fire4,715Aug 23, 1997Natural
Three Springs Fire3,206Aug 7, 1997Natural
North Canal Fire2,255Jun 17, 1997Natural
Cedar Mountain Fire1,609Jul 21, 1997Natural
Big Flat Fire1,186Nov 1, 1997
Mile Post 248 Fire996Aug 13, 1997Human

Every fire of 1997 Oregon fire history

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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.