Dry Fire
The Dry Fire burned 3,135 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2005. It was discovered on July 31, 2005, and contained on August 2, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,135 acres
- Discovered
- July 31, 2005
- Contained
- August 2, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,667 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.978, -118.179.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,135 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,667 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,666 acres
- Discovered
- July 31, 2005, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 2, 2005, 4:03 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
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-ORVAD-002125
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4299311817120050731
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-508418
- Perimeter map method
- Hand Sketch
- 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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tryon Complex (Tryon) Fire | 22,603 | Aug 8, 2005 | Natural |
| Double Mountain Fire | 22,095 | Jul 28, 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 |
| 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.