Wildfires of 2000

Lug Nut Fire

2000Lake County, OregonWildfire

The Lug Nut Fire burned 1,757 acres in Lake County, Oregon, in 2000. It was discovered on June 22, 2000, and contained on September 10, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,757 acres
Discovered
June 22, 2000
Contained
September 10, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,481 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.452, -120.736.

The record

Reported final size
1,757 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,481 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,011 acres
Discovered
June 22, 2000, 8:00 a.m. local time
Contained
September 10, 2000, 12:00 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
OR4343912075220000622
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-95747

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
Jackson Fire79,914Jul 14, 2000Natural
Jim Creek Fire60,388
Beaty Butte Fire35,000Jul 12, 2000Natural
Eastside Complex (Deep Creek) Fire32,967Aug 24, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire27,813Sep 27, 2000
Horn Butte Fire19,650Jul 22, 2000Human
White Mule Fire19,118Aug 3, 2000Natural
Hash Rock Fire18,500Aug 23, 2000Natural
Kern Fire12,069Aug 4, 2000Natural
2 Horse Mountain Fire10,470Jul 18, 2000Natural
Abert Fire10,121Aug 3, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire8,399Sep 27, 2000

Every fire of 2000 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.