Strawberry Fire
The Strawberry Fire was a wildfire burning eight miles south of Swift Reservoir in the Flathead National Forest in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana in the United States. The fire was started by lightning and was reported on August 25, 2017. It has burned a total of 30,461 acres (123 km2). The fire threatened…
Where it happened
Flathead National Forest, as Wikidata places it.
- Wildfires
The record
- Date
- August 25, 2017
- Ended
- November 1, 2017
- Kind
- Wildfire
- Where
- Flathead National Forest
- Country
- United States
What happened
The Strawberry Fire was a wildfire burning eight miles south of Swift Reservoir in the Flathead National Forest in the Bob Marshall Wilderness in Montana in the United States. The fire was started by lightning and was reported on August 25, 2017. It has burned a total of 30,461 acres (123 km2). The fire threatened communities around the Swift Reservoir, including tribal lands of the Blackfeet Nation and Heart Butte, Montana. Its estimated containment date was November 1, 2017.
Sources
Wikidata Q41603868 (CC0); text from Wikipedia, “Strawberry Fire (2017)”, CC BY-SA 4.0.