Wildfires of 1984

Chattin Fire

1984IdahoWildfire

The Chattin Fire burned 5,334 acres in Idaho, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to August 16, 1984.

Size
5,334 acres
Ignition
August 16, 1984

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,334 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.073, -116.030.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,334 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,926 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 16, 1984
State
Idaho
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4305011603419840816
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Perimeter map method
Digitized-Topo

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

FireAcresStartCause
Big Draw 2 Fire45,780Aug 10, 1984
Interstate Fire21,634Aug 10, 1984
Bennett Fire21,529
Air Force Fire9,720Aug 11, 1984
Horsebasin Fire9,495
Military Rail Road Fire7,655Aug 26, 1984
Browns Gulch Fire7,548Jul 13, 1984
Cheat II Fire7,372Aug 10, 1984
Blackstone Fire5,213Aug 30, 1984
Rye Grass Fire4,393Aug 5, 1984
Guard I Fire4,132Jul 11, 1984
John Boyd Fire3,319

Every fire of 1984 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. 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.