Case file · Folklore / legend
The Tillamook 'six-year jinx'
Huge forest fires burned Oregon's Tillamook forest in 1933, 1939, 1945 and 1951, giving rise to talk of a six-year jinx.
1933 CE · 45.60, -123.40 · status: explained
The account
The 1933 fire, started by logging, burned about 240,000 acres. The area was replanted by schoolchildren and volunteers and became the Tillamook State Forest.
The sceptical view
The fires recurred because dead, dry timber from each fire fed the next, not because of any curse.