Juniper Reservoir Fire
200728,437 acresOregon
The Juniper Reservoir Fire burned 28,437 acres, about 44 square miles, across Malheur County. It began on July 13, 2007.
Watch how it happenedJuniper Reservoir Fire · 2007
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 3.2% | 911 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 25% | 7,248 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 46% | 13,208 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 24% | 6,894 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 0.6% | 165 |
3% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 911 acres; 29% burned at moderate or high severity.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Malheur County | OR | 28,455 |
Other large fires in Oregon in 2007
- Egley Complex (Egley)139,679 acres
- Battle Creek Complex (Battle Creek)79,057 acres
- Poe Cabin Fire59,657 acres
- Monument Complex (Red Hill Fire)54,576 acres
- Irish Spring Fire47,814 acres
- Bartlett Mountain Fire31,827 acres
- Clark Butte Fire31,307 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.