Milepost 244 Fire
The Milepost 244 Fire burned 4,096 acres in Umatilla County, Oregon, in 2000. It was discovered on August 15, 2000, and contained on August 21, 2000. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 4,096 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2000
- Contained
- August 21, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,418 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.610, -118.340.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,096 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,418 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,096 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2000, 11:40 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 21, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Umatilla County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Umatilla National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORUMF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2000-ORUMF-000042
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4559811831820000815
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-359539
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackson Fire | 79,914 | Jul 14, 2000 | Natural |
| Jim Creek Fire | 60,388 | ||
| Beaty Butte Fire | 35,000 | Jul 12, 2000 | Natural |
| Eastside Complex (Deep Creek) Fire | 32,967 | Aug 24, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 27,813 | Sep 27, 2000 | |
| Horn Butte Fire | 19,650 | Jul 22, 2000 | Human |
| White Mule Fire | 19,118 | Aug 3, 2000 | Natural |
| Hash Rock Fire | 18,500 | Aug 23, 2000 | Natural |
| Kern Fire | 12,069 | Aug 4, 2000 | Natural |
| 2 Horse Mountain Fire | 10,470 | Jul 18, 2000 | Natural |
| Abert Fire | 10,121 | Aug 3, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,399 | Sep 27, 2000 |
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.