Wildfires of 2003

Braden Ranch Fire

2003Umatilla County, OregonWildfire

The Braden Ranch Fire burned 3,100 acres in Umatilla County, Oregon, in 2003. It was discovered on June 29, 2003, and contained on June 30, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
3,100 acres
Discovered
June 29, 2003
Contained
June 30, 2003
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,867 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.961, -118.938.

The record

Reported final size
3,100 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,867 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,069 acres
Discovered
June 29, 2003, 12:00 p.m. local time
Contained
June 30, 2003, 7:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
County
Umatilla 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
OR4598411891120030629
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-115262
Perimeter map method
Digitized-Topo
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 200312

FireAcresStartCause
Bb Complex (Booth) Fire79,734Aug 19, 2003Natural
Davis Fire21,135Jun 28, 2003Human
Bear Butte Fire13,271
Lightning Complex (Two Corral) Fire10,504Aug 20, 2003Natural
Haas Ridge Fire4,992
Clark Fire4,964Jul 13, 2003Human
Haas Ridge Fire4,861Aug 20, 2003Natural
West Boundry Fire4,000Jun 19, 2003Human
18 Fire3,800Jul 23, 2003Human
Rooster Comb Fire3,659Aug 20, 2003Natural
Link Fire3,590Jul 5, 2003Human
Bull Springs 2 Fire1,266Sep 5, 2003Natural

Every fire of 2003 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.