Mile Post 248 Fire
The Mile Post 248 Fire burned 996 acres in Umatilla County, Oregon, in 1997. It was discovered on August 13, 1997, and contained on August 19, 1997. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 996 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 1997
- Contained
- August 19, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,089 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.552, -118.318.
The record
- Reported final size
- 996 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,089 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 999 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 1997, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 19, 1997, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Umatilla County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Umatilla National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORUMF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1997-ORUMF-000061
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4554111831719970813
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-328924
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cottonwood Creek Fire | 4,717 | ||
| Cottonwood Fire | 4,715 | Aug 23, 1997 | Natural |
| Three Springs Fire | 3,206 | Aug 7, 1997 | Natural |
| North Canal Fire | 2,255 | Jun 17, 1997 | Natural |
| Cedar Mountain Fire | 1,609 | Jul 21, 1997 | Natural |
| Big Flat Fire | 1,186 | Nov 1, 1997 | |
| Mann Lake Fire | 1,140 | Aug 23, 1997 | 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.