Biscuit Fire

When

2002

Kind

Fire

Coordinates

42.05° N, 123.88° W

Description

2002 Oregon wildfire

Date from

year in its Wikidata description

2002 Oregon wildfire

The Biscuit Fire was a massive wildfire in 2002 that burned nearly 500,000 acres in the Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest, in southern Oregon and northern California, in the Western United States. The fire was named after Biscuit Creek in southern Oregon. The Biscuit Fire was the second-largest wildfire in the modern post-1900 history of Oregon.

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