A two-hundred and ninety acre wildfire just north of Ketchum in the Trail Creek area in Blaine County was contained with no homes or structures lost. The cost to contain the fire was set at $680,000.
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 episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
A two-hundred and ninety acre wildfire just north of Ketchum in the Trail Creek area in Blaine County was contained with no homes or structures lost. The cost to contain the fire was set at $680,000.
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 Jun 22, 2:47 AM MST, 10 hours 13 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 347 AM MDT FRI JUN 22 2007 .SHORT TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH MONDAY. SW FLOW PATTERN CONTINUES OVER CWA AS UPPER RIDGE TO EAST AND GULF OF ALASKA LONGWAVE TROUGH SHOWING LITTLE MOVEMENT. SO ANOTHER WARM AND DRY DAY ON FRIDAY. BOTH NAM AND GFS MODELS CONTINUE DRY TREND UNTIL AT LEAST MIDDAY ON SUNDAY...BUT NEITHER MODEL SEEMS TO BE PICKING UP ON LONG STREAMER OF PACIFIC MOISTURE NEAR 30N/135W. IF MOIST SWATH MAINTAINS ITSELF THEN COLD FRONT FORECAST TO MOVE ACROSS CWA LATE SAT INTO SUN MAY GENERATE BROADER AREA OF PRECIP THAN JUST SPOTTY COVERAGE IN CENTRAL MTNS SHOWN IN CURRENT GRIDS. FRONTAL PASSAGE COINCIDES WITH ALASKAN UPPER TROF FINALLY COMING ASHORE ALONG WA/BC COAST EARLY SUNDAY AND THEN LIFTING INTO SW CANADA BY MON. BIGGEST FRONTAL IMPACT RIGHT NOW WILL BE WINDS ON SAT & SUN AS PRE AND POSTFRONTAL GRADIENTS WILL GENERATE GUSTS TO 30-35 MPH OVER A LARGE PORTION OF CWA. WINDS WILL FURTHER DRY OUT THE AIRMASS RESULTING IN RED FLAG CONDITIONS AS DISCUSSED BELOW. FRONTAL SYSTEM WILL ALSO BRING A RESPITE FROM THIS WEEKS ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES...WITH SUN AND MON HIGHS RUNNING ABOUT 8 TO 10 DEG COOLER THAN TODAY AND SAT VALUES. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH NEXT FRIDAY. RETURN TO SW FLOW CONDITIONS EARLY NEXT WEEK AS BOTH GREAT PLAINS RIDGE AND ALASKAN TROF REESTABLISH THEMSELVES. TEMPS FORECAST TO BE 5 TO 7 DEG ABOVE CLIMO BY MIDWEEK. LATEST GFS STILL INDICATING ALASKAN TROF MAY TAP INTO MORE PLENTIFUL PACIFIC MOISTURE...WITH POSSIBLE DECENT RAIN EVENT FOR NEXT FRI BUT TOO FAR OUT TO PUT MUCH CONFIDENCE IN THAT ANALYSIS RIGHT NOW. WARANAUSKAS && .FIRE WEATHER...A DRY AND STABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW WILL PREVAIL TODAY AS A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM REMAINS POSITIONED OFF THE WRN CANADIAN COAST. MODELS REMAIN SOMEWHAT CONSISTENT WITH THE IDEA THAT UPPER LOW WILL BEGIN TO MIGRATE SLOWLY INLAND OVER THE WEEKEND BEFORE EVENTUALLY EJECTING NE INTO CNTRL CANADA MONDAY NIGHT. ALTHOUGH GENERAL DEPICTION HAS BEEN CONSISTENT...SPEED OF SYSTEM HAS BEEN VARIABLE INTRODUCING SOME UNCERTAINTY TO THE FORECAST. WITH THAT SAID...MODELS DRIVE A DRY SURFACE COLD FRONT ACROSS SE IDAHO SATURDAY WITH RESULTING INCREASE IN WINDS ACROSS THE REGION. WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING ELEVATED AND HUMIDITY LOW SATURDAY HAVE OPTED TO ISSUE A FIRE WEATHER WATCH FOR ALL ZONES CURRENTLY EXHIBITING CRITICAL FUEL LEVELS (ZONES 407/409/412/413). STRONGER WINDS EXPECTED BEHIND THE FRONT SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS LOW PUSHES EAST ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER AND THEN NE INTO SASKATCHEWAN. TEMPS COOLING INTO THE 80S BEHIND THE FRONT WHILE AFTERNOON HUMIDITY RUNS AT OR ABOVE 15 PERCENT. WILL NEED TO ADDRESS POTENTIAL FOR CONTINUATION OF HEADLINES THROUGH SUNDAY AND MONDAY AS SITUATION EVOLVES. RETURN TO DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW EXPECTED BY MID-WEEK AS NEXT PAC LOW TAKES UP POSITION OFF THE CANADIAN COAST. HUSTON && .AVIATION...WIDESPREAD VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED UNDER A DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TODAY AND TONIGHT. HUSTON && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... FIRE WEATHER WATCH FROM SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING FOR IDZ407-409-412-413. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 451 AM MDT FRI JUN 22 2007 IDZ017>025-031-032-231100- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI- 451 AM MDT FRI JUN 22 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. A SURFACE COLD FRONT WILL REACH SE IDAHO LATE SATURDAY. LITTLE/NO RAIN IS EXPECTED WITH THE FRONT BUT THE ASSOCIATED PRESSURE GRADIENT WILL PRODUCE WIDESPREAD WIND GUSTS OF 25 TO 30 MPH ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. A RED FLAG WATCH FOR GUSTY WINDS AND LOW HUMIDITIES IS ALREADY POSTED FOR SATURDAY FOR THE EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY AND SOUTHERN SNAKE PLAIN AND HIGHLANDS AND MAY BE NEED TO BE ISSUED ON SUNDAY AS WELL. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire began in the Trail Creek area of Blaine County just to the north of Ketchum on Friday June 22nd. The fire was 290 acres and burned sagebrush, grass and cottonwood trees. No homes or structures were damaged and the fire was considered contained on June 25th. Cost to contain the fire was estimated at $680,000.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, June 2007
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: 42589.