Rowena Fire
The Rowena Fire burned 2,208 acres in Wasco County, Oregon, in 1998. It was discovered on August 9, 1998, and contained on August 13, 1998. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 2,208 acres
- Discovered
- August 9, 1998
- Contained
- August 13, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,182 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.673, -121.264.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,208 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,182 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,934 acres
- Discovered
- August 9, 1998, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 13, 1998, 11:59 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Wasco County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4565312124119980809
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-394954
- Perimeter map method
- Other
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 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Buttes Fire | 28,536 | ||
| Skull Creek Fire | 22,000 | Aug 8, 1998 | Human |
| Butte Fire | 15,000 | Aug 8, 1998 | Human |
| South Tub Mt Fire | 6,416 | Aug 7, 1998 | Natural |
| Bear Creek Fire | 3,345 | Aug 15, 1998 | |
| Blitzen Fire | 2,978 | Aug 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Low Creek Fire | 2,600 | Sep 7, 1998 | Natural |
| Marsh Complex | 2,565 | Oct 21, 1998 | |
| Tub Mtn Fire | 2,422 | Aug 6, 1998 | Natural |
| Raz Lewis Fire | 2,349 | Jul 22, 1998 | Natural |
| Bonita Fire | 2,198 | Aug 14, 1998 | Natural |
| Stockaid Fire | 2,056 | Jul 29, 1998 | 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.