Wildfires of 1978

Cedar Mesa Fire

1978IdahoWildfire

The Cedar Mesa Fire burned 3,297 acres in Idaho, in 1978. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
3,297 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 3,297 acres, mapped by digitized-topo. Middle of the perimeter, 42.221, -114.956.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
3,297 acres
State
Idaho
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized-Topo

Other large fires in Idaho in 19783

FireAcresStartCause
South Murphy Fire2,360
Unnamed Fire2,128
Unnamed Fire1,475

Every fire of 1978 Idaho fire history

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.