Big Juniper Fire
The Big Juniper Fire burned 80,548 acres in Lake County, Oregon, in 2001. It was discovered on August 8, 2001, and contained on August 30, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 80,548 acres
- Discovered
- August 8, 2001
- Contained
- August 30, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 95,236 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.928, -119.908.
The record
- Reported final size
- 80,548 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 95,236 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 80,081 acres
- Discovered
- August 8, 2001, 8:01 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 2001, 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
- Part of
- Lakeview Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4295411972520010808
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-106507
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 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jackies Butte Fire | 67,052 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
| Sheepshead Fire | 41,124 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
| Monument Complex (Mallory) Fire | 32,352 | Aug 13, 2001 | Natural |
| Ferry Canyon Fire | 18,559 | Jul 12, 2001 | Natural |
| Horse Creek Fire | 16,459 | Aug 14, 2001 | Natural |
| Big Stick Fire | 9,601 | Jul 4, 2001 | Natural |
| Sheepshead Complex (Stonehouse) Fire | 9,450 | Aug 10, 2001 | Natural |
| Bridge Creek Fire | 9,230 | Aug 13, 2001 | Natural |
| Starvation Fire | 7,500 | Jul 13, 2001 | Natural |
| Wagner Mountain Fire | 7,076 | Jul 12, 2001 | Natural |
| Quartz Fire | 6,162 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
| West Crater Fire | 5,995 | Aug 9, 2001 | Natural |
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.