Wildfires of 2001

Indian Springs Fire

2001Klamath County, OregonWildfire

The Indian Springs Fire burned 1,895 acres in Klamath County, Oregon, in 2001. It was discovered on August 3, 2001, and contained on August 18, 2001. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,895 acres
Discovered
August 3, 2001
Contained
August 18, 2001
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,294 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.284, -121.334.

The record

Reported final size
1,895 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,294 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,667 acres
Discovered
August 3, 2001, 3:01 p.m. local time
Contained
August 18, 2001, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Oregon
County
Klamath County
Reporting unit
Fremont-Winema National Forest
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORFWF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2001-ORFWF-999999
MTBS fire identifier
OR4229812131920010803
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-369862
Perimeter records
3 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

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.