Akawana Od Fire
The Akawana Od Fire was reported on June 7, 2016 in Jefferson County, Oregon and burned 2,094 acres. It was declared out on October 14, 2016. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,094 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 7, 2016
- Personnel
- 106
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 44.488, -121.481.
The incident
- Size
- 2,094 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- June 7, 2016 at 4:14 PM PDT
- Contained
- June 17, 2016 at 6:00 PM PDT
- Declared out
- October 14, 2016 at 5:04 PM PDT
- Cause
- Natural
- County
- Jefferson County
- State
- Oregon
- Nearest city reported
- SISTERS
- Protecting agency
- DOF
- Personnel assigned
- 106
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $3,579,995
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-OR955S-000152
- IRWIN identifier
- 5BCA6540-74D4-40C9-BAE2-2C6F16002BCD
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 9, from June 8, 2016 to June 18, 2016. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 912
- Injuries
- 1
- Most personnel assigned
- 452 on June 9, 2016
- Most aircraft assigned
- 6
- Cost reported by the teams
- $3.6 million, in 2016 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 135 acres, on June 10, 2016.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 8, 2016 | 1,930 | |
| Jun 9, 2016 | 1,930 | 0 |
| Jun 10, 2016 | 2,065 | +135 |
| Jun 11, 2016 | 2,094 | +29 |
| Jun 12, 2016 | 2,094 | 0 |
| Jun 13, 2016 | 2,094 | 0 |
| Jun 14, 2016 | 2,094 | 0 |
| Jun 15, 2016 | 2,094 | 0 |
| Jun 18, 2016 | 2,094 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Culver, OR covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated October 14, 2016 at 5:05 PM PDT. Identifier 2016-OR955S-000152.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.