Boulder Fire
The Boulder Fire burned 48,080 acres in Douglas County, Oregon, in 2002. It was discovered on July 13, 2002, and contained on October 3, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 48,080 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2002
- Contained
- October 3, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 48,469 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.098, -122.737.
The record
- Reported final size
- 48,080 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 48,469 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 48,502 acres
- Discovered
- July 13, 2002, 9:29 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 3, 2002, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Umpqua National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORUPF
- Part of
- Tiller Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4311312273420020713
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-378195
- Perimeter records
- 6 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Forest generated FIRE_NAME, FIRE_YEAR, others filled by GIS.
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biscuit Complex (Biscuit) Fire | 499,945 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Tool Box Complex (Tool Box) Fire | 54,800 | Jul 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Trimbly Creek Fire | 42,543 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Grizzly Complex (Winter) Fire | 33,894 | Jul 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Mahogany Complex (Atkins Butte) Fire | 32,812 | Jul 15, 2002 | Natural |
| White River Fire | 28,500 | Jul 23, 2002 | Natural |
| Timbered Rock Fire | 27,351 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Monument-Malheur Complex (Monument) Fire | 24,667 | Jul 12, 2002 | Natural |
| Grizzly Complex (Silver) Fire | 24,565 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Eyerly Complex (Eyerly) Fire | 23,573 | Jul 9, 2002 | Natural |
| Wiinter Fire | 19,561 | ||
| Apple Fire | 17,600 | Aug 16, 2002 | Human |
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.