Wildfires of 2006

Wolfe Point 2 Fire

2006OregonWildfire

The Wolfe Point 2 Fire burned 4,129 acres in Oregon, in 2006. It was discovered on July 27, 2006, and contained on August 15, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
4,129 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006
Contained
August 15, 2006
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,131 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.846, -121.138.

The record

Reported final size
4,129 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,131 acres
Discovered
July 27, 2006, 6:12 p.m. local time
Contained
August 15, 2006, 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 Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4484112110720060727
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-528792

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 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Pueblo Fire68,224Aug 21, 2006Natural
Happy Valley Fire65,031Jul 22, 2006Natural
Foster Gulch Fire53,547Jul 23, 2006Natural
Foster Gulch Complex49,748
Granddad Fire46,523Aug 21, 2006Human
Star Mountain Fire43,545Aug 21, 2006Natural
Mud Springs Fire17,349Aug 10, 2006Natural
Jackies Butte Fire14,572Sep 3, 2006Natural
Thorn Creek Fire13,536Aug 22, 2006Natural
Unnamed Fire13,288
Jim Creek Fire12,946Aug 22, 2006Natural
Twin Lakes Complex11,615Sep 4, 2006Natural

Every fire of 2006 Oregon fire history

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Sources

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.