Wildfire, Oneida
- When
- August 15, 12:00 AM MST to 11:00 PM MST
- Where
- Oneida County, 10 mi SW of Malad
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 42.195, -112.540 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Idaho, August 15, 2001
1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- 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.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 14, 8:40 PM MST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 14, 8:40 PM MST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 940 PM MDT TUE AUG 14 2001 SVR CELL NEAR ATOMIC CITY AND WARNING JUST ISSUED. TREND LAST 3 DAYS HAS BEEN FOR STORMS IN LOCALLY UNSTABLE REGIME TO DEVELOP OVER MACKAY AND MOVE SOUTHEAST PROPAGATING OUTFLOW BOUNDARIES INTO LOWER SNAKE PLAIN. THIS NOT DETECTED ALL THAT WELL IN PROGS. NW FLOW ALOFT ALLOWING SOME SHORTWAVE ENERGY TO GRAZE ZONE 19 WHERE SOME INSTABILITY LINGERS. WITH UPPER RIDGE NOT EXPECTED TO CREST ACROSS PIH CWA UNTIL LATER THU (AS PER NEW ETA) WITH SOME WARMING ALOFT SEE NO CHANGE TO THIS PATTERN. MID SHIFT WILL TO NEED REEVALUATE AS NEW MODEL POPS HIGHER THAN CURRENTLY FORECAST OR IN OLD GUIDANCE. MINOR TWEAKS TO ZONES FORTHCOMING. TA BYI 90/56/93 230 .KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. PIH BB 090/053 091/051 094 10241 .PIH...NONE
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, August 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Texas, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 15, 2001
- Heat in Florida, August 15, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 15, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 15, 2001
- Hail in North Dakota, August 15, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Wyoming, August 15, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 15, 2001
- Hail in Minnesota, August 15, 2001
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, August 2001
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: 5265703.