Wildfires of 2008

I284 Fire

2008Sherman County, OregonWildfire

The I284 Fire burned 9,787 acres in Sherman County, Oregon, in 2008. It was discovered on July 3, 2008, and contained on July 13, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
9,787 acres
Discovered
July 3, 2008
Contained
July 13, 2008
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,217 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.627, -120.490.

The record

Reported final size
9,787 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
9,217 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
9,788 acres
Discovered
July 3, 2008, 8:00 a.m. local time
Contained
July 13, 2008, 8:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
County
Sherman County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Prineville District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
ORPRD
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4564912052120080703
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-576083

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 200812

FireAcresStartCause
Coal Plant Fire78,000Jun 29, 2008Natural
Jackies Butte Fire25,491Jun 30, 2008Natural
Middle Fork Fire21,125Aug 18, 2008Natural
Jack Knife Fire20,115Jul 1, 2008Natural
Rattle Fire19,775Aug 18, 2008Natural
North Pole Ridge Fire6,299Aug 7, 2008Natural
Sayrs 2 Fire5,175Aug 7, 2008Natural
Unnamed Fire5,165Jul 7, 2008
Bridge Creek Fire4,891Aug 7, 2008Natural
Deep Creek Fire4,617Jul 3, 2008Natural
Big Cove Fire4,268Sep 19, 2008Natural
Silvies River Fire4,040Aug 7, 2008Natural

Every fire of 2008 Oregon fire history

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.