Rattlesnake Springs Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,191 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.900, -121.100.

Reported final size

1,238 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,191 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

1,171 acres

Discovered

July 22, 2005, 12:54 p.m. local time

Contained

July 29, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Arson/incendiarism

State

Oregon

Land ownership at origin

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Reporting unit

Warm Springs Agency

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

ORWSC

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

OR4487312108020050722

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

W-506597

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 6, from July 22, 2005 to November 8, 2005. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Most structures threatened at once

5

Most personnel assigned

95 on July 22, 2005

Cost reported by the teams

$350,000, in 2005 dollars

Cause on the reports

Lightning or other natural

Acres reported by day

Every fire of 2005 Oregon fire history

• Warm Springs, OR12 miles southwest of the fire
• Madras, OR18 miles south of the fire
• Culver, OR26 miles south of the fire
• Terrebonne, OR38 miles south of the fire
• Prineville, OR43 miles south of the fire
• Redmond, OR43 miles south of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.