Double Mountain Fire
The Double Mountain Fire burned 22,095 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2005. It was discovered on July 28, 2005, and contained on July 31, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 22,095 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2005
- Contained
- July 31, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 23,839 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.896, -117.369.
The record
- Reported final size
- 22,095 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 23,839 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 23,097 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2005, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 31, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Malheur 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
- OR4385911735820050728
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-513974
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tryon Complex (Tryon) Fire | 22,603 | Aug 8, 2005 | Natural |
| Tryon Complex (Cherry Creek) Fire | 18,177 | Aug 9, 2005 | Natural |
| Blossom Fire | 14,772 | Jul 21, 2005 | Natural |
| Beef Trail Fire | 4,692 | Aug 7, 2005 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,683 | Jun 29, 2005 | |
| Fairwell Bend Fire | 4,309 | Jul 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Wolfe Point Fire | 4,150 | Jul 19, 2005 | Human |
| McKinley Fire | 3,813 | ||
| Mckinley Fire | 3,811 | Aug 1, 2005 | Human |
| Dry Fire | 3,135 | Jul 31, 2005 | Natural |
| Keeney Pass Fire | 2,891 | Aug 8, 2005 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,612 | Jul 28, 2005 |
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.