Chetco Bar Fire
The Chetco Bar Fire was reported on July 12, 2017 in Curry County, Oregon and burned 191,125 acres. It was declared out on November 29, 2017. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 191,125 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 12, 2017
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 42.297, -123.954.
The incident
- Size
- 191,125 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 12, 2017 at 1:43 PM PDT
- Contained
- November 2, 2017 at 5:00 PM PDT
- Controlled
- November 29, 2017 at 2:17 PM PST
- Declared out
- November 29, 2017 at 2:17 PM PST
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Sixteen miles west of Selma, OR
- County
- Curry County
- State
- Oregon
- Nearest city reported
- Brookings
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $72,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-ORRSF-000326
- IRWIN identifier
- 0DB1B631-B388-4880-8E5F-CAB85B14CA43
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Kerby, 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 June 21, 2018 at 5:36 PM PDT. Identifier 2017-ORRSF-000326.