Wildfires of 1978

South Murphy Fire

1978IdahoWildfire

The South Murphy Fire burned 2,360 acres in Idaho, in 1978. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,360 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,360 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 41.930, -115.334.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,360 acres
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire

Other large fires in Idaho in 19783

FireAcresStartCause
Cedar Mesa Fire3,297
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.