Crump Fire
The Crump Fire burned 3,200 acres in Lake County, Oregon, in 1999. It was discovered on August 3, 1999, and contained on August 5, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1999
- Contained
- August 5, 1999
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,059 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.243, -119.786.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,059 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,451 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 1999, 4:05 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 5, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Lake County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Lakeview District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORLAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4221411979119990803
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-2657
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 8,000 | Sep 26, 1999 | |
| He He Fire | 6,172 | Sep 29, 1999 | Human |
| Degarmo Fire | 5,000 | Nov 7, 1999 | Human |
| Stonehouse Fire | 4,545 | Aug 18, 1999 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,214 | Sep 10, 1999 | |
| Horse Cr Fire | 3,747 | ||
| Long Hollow Summit Fire | 3,626 | Aug 4, 1999 | Natural |
| Rainbow Quarry Fire | 3,027 | Sep 5, 1999 | Human |
| Ankle Creek Fire | 2,678 | Oct 21, 1999 | Human |
| Blackrock Fire | 2,280 | May 19, 1999 | |
| Schoolhouse Gulch Fire | 2,100 | Jul 17, 1999 | Human |
| Repeater Fire | 1,980 | Sep 28, 1999 | Human |
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.