Wildfires of 1999

He He Fire

1999OregonWildfire

The He He Fire burned 6,172 acres in Oregon, in 1999. It was discovered on September 29, 1999, and contained on October 11, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
6,172 acres
Discovered
September 29, 1999
Contained
October 11, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,150 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.948, -121.463.

The record

Reported final size
6,172 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,150 acres
Discovered
September 29, 1999, 1:30 p.m. local time
Contained
October 11, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Warm Springs Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4494012145419990929
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-447713
Note on the perimeter
landcover has a forest component has well

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

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire8,000Sep 26, 1999
Degarmo Fire5,000Nov 7, 1999Human
Stonehouse Fire4,545Aug 18, 1999Natural
Unnamed Fire4,214Sep 10, 1999
Horse Cr Fire3,747
Long Hollow Summit Fire3,626Aug 4, 1999Natural
Crump Fire3,200Aug 3, 1999Natural
Rainbow Quarry Fire3,027Sep 5, 1999Human
Ankle Creek Fire2,678Oct 21, 1999Human
Blackrock Fire2,280May 19, 1999
Schoolhouse Gulch Fire2,100Jul 17, 1999Human
Repeater Fire1,980Sep 28, 1999Human

Every fire of 1999 Oregon fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.