Wildfire in Idaho, August 10 to 11, 2000

Name: Wildfire in Idaho, August 10 to 11, 2000
Start: 2000-08-10T18:00
End: 2000-08-11T19:00
Location: Idaho

August 10 to 11, 2000 · NWS PIH · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $750,000
Crop damage: $250,000
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Lincoln

When: August 10, 6:00 PM MST to August 11, 7:00 PM MST
Where: Lincoln County, 10 mi SW of Dietrich
Property damage: $750,000
Crop damage: $250,000
Reported by: EMERGENCY MANAGER
Coordinates: 43.002, -114.138 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Lightning triggered the High Point fire, which quickly burned 20,300 total acres. Several silos and nearly 2000 acres of wheat, barley and pasture were destroyed. Caught and killed in the fast moving conflagration on the pasture were some 200 cattle.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Idaho in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history Warnings in Idaho, August 2000

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5172772.