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Biscuit Fire

Biscuit Fire
Location	Siskiyou National Forest, Oregon and California
Date	Between July 12 and July 15, 2002 (PDT)
Burned area	500,000 acres (2,000 km²)
Ignition source	Lightning
Land use	Mixed, residential and wildlands
Fatalities	0

The Biscuit Fire was a wildfire that took place in 2002 that burned nearly 500,000 acres (2,000 km²) in the Siskiyou National Forest in the states of Oregon and California. It was named after Biscuit Creek in southern Oregon.

The fire season in 2002 was an especially active one that started early with major fires in Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico, pulling resources from the Pacific Northwest. Between July 12 and July 15, a series of lightning storms occurred in California and Oregon starting hundreds of small wildfires. During this period, five such fires were started within a 20 mi (32 km) radius of each other near the state border. Due to the fires already burning in other areas, insufficient numbers of fire crews and smokejumpers were available to combat these fires and they began to burn out of control. The large Florence Fire, which had started approximately 30 mi (48 km) north of the border, eventually joined what was known as the Sour Biscuit Fire which was burning very close to the border. Once the massive Biscuit Fire was created, it could not be fully contained until December 31, 2002.

The fire destroyed 4 primary residences and 10 other structures, put 15,000 residents on evacuation notice and burned most of the 180,000 acre (728 km²) Kalmiopsis Wilderness. Despite the level of destruction, there were no deaths attributed to the fire.

Since the fire, the United States Forest Service has been trying to log most of the severely burnt area, despite ecologists' concerns about the Port Orford Cedar, which is threatened from a root fungus that is most commonly spread on car tires and shoes. This will be the largest recorded timber sale in U.S. history, and a landmark case setting the future for all fires in national forests.

In 2006, a controversial paper on the effects of post-wildfire salvage logging caused a minor controversy within the forest sciences community.

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