Wildfires of 1960

Dry Creek Fire

1960IdahoWildfire

The Dry Creek Fire burned 9,705 acres in Idaho, in 1960. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
9,705 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 9,705 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 42.328, -114.174.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
9,705 acres
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDSTF
Incident type
Wildfire
Note on the perimeter
Perimeter a circle; approx. 5265 SNF acres, 4440 BLM/state acres

Other large fires in Idaho in 196012

Every fire of 1960 Idaho fire history

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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.