Long Draw Fire
The Long Draw Fire burned 558,198 acres in Malheur County, Oregon, in 2012. It was discovered on July 8, 2012, and contained on July 30, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 558,198 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2012
- Contained
- July 30, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 557,211 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.392, -117.894.
The record
- Reported final size
- 558,198 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 557,211 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 558,054 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2012, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 30, 2012, 8:30 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Oregon
- County
- Malheur County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Vale District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- ORVAD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-ORVAD-000067
- MTBS fire identifier
- OR4239211789420120708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-649635
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 201212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Miller Homestead Fire | 160,801 | Jul 8, 2012 | Natural |
| Barry Point Fire | 92,977 | Aug 6, 2012 | Natural |
| Cache Creek Fire | 73,582 | Aug 20, 2012 | Natural |
| Pole Creek Fire | 26,795 | Sep 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Lava Fire | 21,546 | Jul 23, 2012 | Natural |
| Danner Loop 2 Fire | 19,449 | Aug 28, 2012 | Human |
| Waterfalls 2 Fire | 12,246 | Aug 6, 2012 | Natural |
| Ten Mile Complex | 10,056 | Aug 10, 2012 | Natural |
| Iron Fire | 9,384 | Jul 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Baker Canyon Fire | 8,309 | Jul 14, 2012 | Natural |
| Bonita Fire | 8,304 | Jul 9, 2012 | Natural |
| Parish Cabin Fire | 6,481 | Aug 28, 2012 | Human |
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.