Cow Hollow Fire
The Cow Hollow Fire burned 4,131 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2001. It was discovered on June 15, 2001, and contained on June 17, 2001. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 4,131 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2001
- Contained
- June 17, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,120 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.857, -117.184.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,131 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,120 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,054 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2001, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 17, 2001, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Malheur County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Vale District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORVAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4385811722120010615
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-101116
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from June 15, 2001 to June 18, 2001. 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
- 45 on June 15, 2001
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Human
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,631 acres, on June 16, 2001.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 15, 2001 | 1,500 | |
| Jun 16, 2001 | 4,131 | +2,631 |
| Jun 17, 2001 | 4,131 | 0 |
| Jun 18, 2001 | 4,131 | 0 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Juniper Fire | 80,548 | Aug 8, 2001 | Natural |
| 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 |
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. 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.