Wheatwell Fire
The Wheatwell Fire burned 2,665 acres in Montana, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to August 27, 1984.
- Size
- 2,665 acres
- Ignition
- August 27, 1984
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,665 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.719, -105.838.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,665 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,059 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 27, 1984
- State
- Montana
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- CORMC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4571910583819840827
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Hand Digitized (USFS)
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 Montana in 198411
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawk Creek Fire | 157,824 | Aug 25, 1984 | |
| North Hill Fire | 27,145 | Aug 27, 1984 | |
| Houghton Creek II Fire | 12,486 | Aug 15, 1984 | |
| Centennial Fire | 11,769 | Aug 19, 1984 | |
| Napi Peak Fire | 3,678 | Aug 19, 1984 | |
| Lake Creek Fire | 3,613 | Sep 18, 1984 | |
| Crystal Creek Fire | 3,254 | Aug 27, 1984 | |
| Cactus Cr Fire | 1,854 | Aug 5, 1984 | |
| Kirby Fire | 1,596 | Aug 26, 1984 | |
| Fritz Fire | 1,488 | Aug 26, 1984 | |
| Red Owl Fire | 1,055 | Aug 27, 1984 |
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.