Wildfires of 1945

Benchmark Fire

1945MontanaWildfire

The Benchmark Fire burned 2,519 acres in Montana, in 1945. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,519 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,519 acres, mapped by digitized other. Middle of the perimeter, 47.502, -112.857.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,519 acres
State
Montana
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
cost = NA

Nearby

Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.