Wildfires of 2002

Grizzly Complex (Silver) Fire

2002OregonWildfire

The Grizzly Complex (Silver) Fire burned 24,565 acres in Oregon, in 2002. It was discovered on July 13, 2002, and contained on October 11, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
24,565 acres
Discovered
July 13, 2002
Contained
October 11, 2002
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 24,341 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.992, -121.174.

The record

Reported final size
24,565 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
24,341 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
24,731 acres
Discovered
July 13, 2002, 2:43 p.m. local time
Contained
October 11, 2002, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Fremont-Winema National Forest
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORLAD
Part of
Toolbox Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4299212116120020713
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-382709
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 200212

FireAcresStartCause
Biscuit Complex (Biscuit) Fire499,945Jul 13, 2002Natural
Tool Box Complex (Tool Box) Fire54,800Jul 12, 2002Natural
Boulder Fire48,080Jul 13, 2002Natural
Trimbly Creek Fire42,543Jul 13, 2002Natural
Grizzly Complex (Winter) Fire33,894Jul 12, 2002Natural
Mahogany Complex (Atkins Butte) Fire32,812Jul 15, 2002Natural
White River Fire28,500Jul 23, 2002Natural
Timbered Rock Fire27,351Jul 13, 2002Natural
Monument-Malheur Complex (Monument) Fire24,667Jul 12, 2002Natural
Eyerly Complex (Eyerly) Fire23,573Jul 9, 2002Natural
Wiinter Fire19,561
Apple Fire17,600Aug 16, 2002Human

Every fire of 2002 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.