Wildfire, Bingham
- When
- August 20, 12:00 AM MST to August 21, 10:00 PM MST
- Where
- Bingham County, 5 mi N of Springfield
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 43.217, -112.398 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Idaho, August 20 to 21, 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 19, 8:25 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 19, 8:25 PM MST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 925 PM MDT SUN AUG 19 2001 BROAD UPPER RIDGE OVER PIH CWA WITH 00Z SLC RAOB L1 -2 AND PW 0.63. MODELS SHOW LIS +2 OVER PIH CWA INTO MON. FORECAST CWA UNDER MORE SW FLOW ALOFT BY MON/TUE AS ENERGY CONSOLIDATES IN SOUTHERN BRANCH AND RATHER UNSEASONAL UPPER TROUGH EJECTS ACROSS UT BY TUE NIGHT/WED. ETA DEEPER AND WETTER VS AVN. FORECAST ON TRACK AND RFW FOR ZONES 409/410 CONTINUES UNTIL 10 PM MDT. TA BYI 50/86/51/85 0000 .KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 32. PIH BB 048/085 050/084 048 10000 .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
- Rip Current in Florida, August 20, 2001
- Wildfire in California, August 20 to 28, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in New York, August 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 20, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, August 20, 2001
- Flooding and Lightning Strike in New York, August 20, 2001
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, August 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Kansas, August 20, 2001
- Rip Current in Guam, August 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 20, 2001
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 20, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, August 20, 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: 5265704.