Wildfires of 2011

Red Cone Fire

2011OregonWildfire

The Red Cone Fire burned 322 acres in Oregon, in 2011. It was discovered on August 20, 2011, and contained on November 3, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
322 acres
Discovered
August 20, 2011
Contained
November 3, 2011
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,341 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.003, -122.198.

The record

Reported final size
322 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,341 acres
Discovered
August 20, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
Contained
November 3, 2011, 10:25 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Oregon
Land ownership at origin
National Park Service
Reporting unit
Crater Lake National Park
Agency
National Park Service
Part of
Red Cone Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OR4300312219820110820
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
W-629161
Note on the perimeter
Hard to delineate unburned/burned.

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 201112

FireAcresStartCause
Razor Back East Fire51,384Aug 24, 2011Natural
High Cascades Fire44,476Aug 24, 2011
I-0511 Hancock Fire23,069
Powerline Fire20,907
I-0511 Hancock Fire18,810
West Hill Fire15,370
Clarks Butte Fire13,299Aug 6, 2011Natural
Clarno Fire11,107
Hancock Complex11,000Aug 24, 2011Natural
Shadow Lake Fire10,000Aug 28, 2011Natural
Unnamed Fire9,000Aug 1, 2011Natural
Cactus Mountain Fire8,212Sep 7, 2011Human

Every fire of 2011 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.