Muddy Creek Fire
The Muddy Creek Fire burned 16,267 acres in Wasco County, Oregon, in 2009. It was discovered on August 2, 2009, and contained on August 16, 2009. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 16,267 acres
- Discovered
- August 2, 2009
- Contained
- August 16, 2009
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,012 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.841, -120.618.
The record
- Reported final size
- 16,267 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,012 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 16,266 acres
- Discovered
- August 2, 2009, 10:06 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 16, 2009, 5:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Wasco County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Prineville District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORPRD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4480312057720090802
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-594474
- 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 200912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tumblebug Complex | 14,560 | Sep 12, 2009 | Natural |
| Kelsay Butte Fire | 12,406 | ||
| Boze Fire | 10,721 | Sep 13, 2009 | Natural |
| 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.