Turner Creek Fire
The Turner Creek Fire burned 1,419 acres in Oregon, in 2005. It was discovered on September 14, 2005, and contained on September 24, 2005. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,419 acres
- Discovered
- September 14, 2005
- Contained
- September 24, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,558 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.421, -116.786.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,419 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,558 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,430 acres
- Discovered
- September 14, 2005, 9:45 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 24, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oregon
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- ORWWF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-ORWWF-000100
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4545211680120050914
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1430989
- 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 |
| Dry Fire | 3,135 | Jul 31, 2005 | Natural |
| Keeney Pass Fire | 2,891 | Aug 8, 2005 | Natural |
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.