Boze Fire
The Boze Fire burned 10,721 acres in Douglas County, Oregon, in 2009. It was discovered on September 13, 2009, and contained on November 2, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,721 acres
- Discovered
- September 13, 2009
- Contained
- November 2, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,943 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.153, -122.535.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,721 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,943 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,061 acres
- Discovered
- September 13, 2009, 9:22 a.m. local time
- Contained
- November 2, 2009, 3:05 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Umpqua National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORUPF
- Part of
- Boze Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2009-ORUPF-009237
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4317212252420090913
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1483786
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Image
- Perimeter records
- 7 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 200912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Muddy Creek Fire | 16,267 | Aug 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Tumblebug Complex | 14,560 | Sep 12, 2009 | Natural |
| Kelsay Butte Fire | 12,406 | ||
| Williams Creek Fire | 8,395 | Jul 28, 2009 | Human |
| North Fork Complex | 6,900 | Aug 2, 2009 | Natural |
| Rainbow Creek Fire | 5,740 | Sep 22, 2009 | Natural |
| Big Sheep Fire | 3,466 | Aug 29, 2009 | Natural |
| Mcginnis Creek Fire | 3,417 | Jul 24, 2009 | Human |
| Big Sheep Fire | 3,120 | ||
| Ward Canyon Fire | 1,962 | Oct 11, 2009 | Human |
| Green Grass Fire | 1,304 | May 30, 2009 | Natural |
| I-686 Fire | 1,296 |
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.