Grassy Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Log Springs Fire | 13,539 | Jul 25, 2004 | Human |
| Bland Mountain 2 Fire | 4,705 | Aug 20, 2004 | Human |
| Sidwalter Fire | 1,880 | Apr 27, 2004 | 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.