Wildfires of 2004

Grassy Fire

2004Lake County, OregonWildfire

The Grassy Fire burned 4,232 acres in Lake County, Oregon, in 2004. It was discovered on August 13, 2004, and contained on October 12, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,232 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2004
Contained
October 12, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,113 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.394, -120.136.

The record

Reported final size
4,232 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,113 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,226 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2004, 2:58 p.m. local time
Contained
October 12, 2004, 12:32 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
County
Lake County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Fremont-Winema National Forest
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORFWF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4239112012820040813
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-403013

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 20043

FireAcresStartCause
Log Springs Fire13,539Jul 25, 2004Human
Bland Mountain 2 Fire4,705Aug 20, 2004Human
Sidwalter Fire1,880Apr 27, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 Oregon fire history

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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.