Weed Lake Butte Fire
The Weed Lake Butte Fire burned 1,173 acres in Oregon, in 1999. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 1,173 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,173 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 43.188, -119.196.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,173 acres
- State
- Oregon
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORBUD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from August 1, 1999 to August 4, 1999. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 19 on August 1, 1999
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 929 acres, on August 2, 1999.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 1999 | 250 | |
| Aug 2, 1999 | 1,179 | +929 |
| Aug 4, 1999 | 1,179 |
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 |
| Crump Fire | 3,200 | Aug 3, 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 |
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. 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.