Braden Ranch Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bb Complex (Booth) Fire | 79,734 | Aug 19, 2003 | Natural |
| Davis Fire | 21,135 | Jun 28, 2003 | Human |
| Bear Butte Fire | 13,271 | ||
| Lightning Complex (Two Corral) Fire | 10,504 | Aug 20, 2003 | Natural |
| Haas Ridge Fire | 4,992 | ||
| Clark Fire | 4,964 | Jul 13, 2003 | Human |
| Haas Ridge Fire | 4,861 | Aug 20, 2003 | Natural |
| West Boundry Fire | 4,000 | Jun 19, 2003 | Human |
| 18 Fire | 3,800 | Jul 23, 2003 | Human |
| Rooster Comb Fire | 3,659 | Aug 20, 2003 | Natural |
| Link Fire | 3,590 | Jul 5, 2003 | Human |
| Bull Springs 2 Fire | 1,266 | Sep 5, 2003 | 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.