Wildfires of 1998

Stockaid Fire

1998OregonWildfire

The Stockaid Fire burned 2,056 acres in Oregon, in 1998. It was discovered on July 29, 1998, and contained on August 1, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,056 acres
Discovered
July 29, 1998
Contained
August 1, 1998
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,309 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.260, -118.051.

The record

Reported final size
2,056 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,309 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,046 acres
Discovered
July 29, 1998, 6:30 a.m. local time
Contained
August 1, 1998, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Vale District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORVAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4326111805719980729
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-8397

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

FireAcresStartCause
The Buttes Fire28,536
Skull Creek Fire22,000Aug 8, 1998Human
Butte Fire15,000Aug 8, 1998Human
South Tub Mt Fire6,416Aug 7, 1998Natural
Bear Creek Fire3,345Aug 15, 1998
Blitzen Fire2,978Aug 19, 1998Natural
Low Creek Fire2,600Sep 7, 1998Natural
Marsh Complex2,565Oct 21, 1998
Tub Mtn Fire2,422Aug 6, 1998Natural
Raz Lewis Fire2,349Jul 22, 1998Natural
Rowena Fire2,208Aug 9, 1998Human
Bonita Fire2,198Aug 14, 1998Natural

Every fire of 1998 Oregon fire history

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.