Wildfires of 2010

Rooster Rock Fire

2010Deschutes County, OregonWildfire

The Rooster Rock Fire burned 6,134 acres in Deschutes County, Oregon, in 2010. It was discovered on August 2, 2010, and contained on August 15, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
6,134 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2010
Contained
August 15, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,366 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.219, -121.584.

The record

Reported final size
6,134 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,366 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,119 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2010, 11:41 a.m. local time
Contained
August 15, 2010, 9:30 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oregon
County
Deschutes County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Deschutes National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
ORDEF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2010-ORDEF-000476
MTBS fire identifier
OR4418312154220100802
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1491178
Perimeter map method
GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 201012

FireAcresStartCause
White Lightning Complex (Youther) Fire29,500Aug 18, 2010Natural
Lower Deschutes Complex (Tygh Ridge) Fire9,304Aug 19, 2010Natural
Oak Flat Fire7,494Aug 13, 2010Human
Buckhorn Complex4,197Jul 27, 2010Natural
Lower Deschutes Complex (Fall Canyon) Fire3,714Aug 19, 2010
Scott Mountain Fire3,454Aug 19, 2010Natural
Poker Jim Ridge Fire3,153Aug 5, 2010Human
Hay Fire3,083Oct 14, 2010Human
Bull of the Woods Fire2,810Aug 18, 2010Natural
Streese Fire2,565Aug 16, 2010Human
I-385 Buckhorn Fire2,223
Cougar Mountain Fire2,064Sep 15, 2010Natural

Every fire of 2010 Oregon fire history

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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.