Horse Creek Fire
The Horse Creek Fire burned 16,459 acres in Oregon, in 2001. It was discovered on August 14, 2001, and contained on August 30, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 16,459 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2001
- Contained
- August 30, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,934 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.669, -116.771.
The record
- Reported final size
- 16,459 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,934 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 16,500 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2001, 6:18 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 2001, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORWWF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2001-ORWWF-000044
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4561911679520010814
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-368558
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- 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 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 |
| 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.