Blackstone Fire
The Blackstone Fire burned 5,213 acres in Idaho, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to August 30, 1984.
- Size
- 5,213 acres
- Ignition
- August 30, 1984
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,213 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.514, -115.692.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,213 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,842 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 30, 1984
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4256711571819840830
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
- Perimeter records
- 6 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Unburned Island
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in Idaho in 198412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Big Draw 2 Fire | 45,780 | Aug 10, 1984 | |
| Interstate Fire | 21,634 | Aug 10, 1984 | |
| Bennett Fire | 21,529 | ||
| Air Force Fire | 9,720 | Aug 11, 1984 | |
| Horsebasin Fire | 9,495 | ||
| Military Rail Road Fire | 7,655 | Aug 26, 1984 | |
| Browns Gulch Fire | 7,548 | Jul 13, 1984 | |
| Cheat II Fire | 7,372 | Aug 10, 1984 | |
| Chattin Fire | 5,334 | Aug 16, 1984 | |
| Rye Grass Fire | 4,393 | Aug 5, 1984 | |
| Guard I Fire | 4,132 | Jul 11, 1984 | |
| John Boyd Fire | 3,319 |
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. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. 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.