Wildfires of 2001

Crowley Fire

2001Malheur County, OregonWildfire

The Crowley Fire burned 3,735 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2001. It was discovered on July 12, 2001, and contained on July 14, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
3,735 acres
Discovered
July 12, 2001
Contained
July 14, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,875 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.345, -117.963.

The record

Reported final size
3,735 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,875 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,737 acres
Discovered
July 12, 2001, 4:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 14, 2001, 8:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
County
Malheur County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Vale District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORVAD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4334511796120010712
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-103044

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

FireAcresStartCause
Big Juniper Fire80,548Aug 8, 2001Natural
Jackies Butte Fire67,052Aug 9, 2001Natural
Sheepshead Fire41,124Aug 9, 2001Natural
Monument Complex (Mallory) Fire32,352Aug 13, 2001Natural
Ferry Canyon Fire18,559Jul 12, 2001Natural
Horse Creek Fire16,459Aug 14, 2001Natural
Big Stick Fire9,601Jul 4, 2001Natural
Sheepshead Complex (Stonehouse) Fire9,450Aug 10, 2001Natural
Bridge Creek Fire9,230Aug 13, 2001Natural
Starvation Fire7,500Jul 13, 2001Natural
Wagner Mountain Fire7,076Jul 12, 2001Natural
Quartz Fire6,162Aug 9, 2001Natural

Every fire of 2001 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.