Wildfires of 1985

Charlotte Peak Fire

1985MontanaWildland fire use

The Charlotte Peak Fire burned 5,225 acres in Montana, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to June 29, 1985.

Size
5,225 acres
Ignition
June 29, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,225 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 47.557, -113.372.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,225 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
5,890 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 29, 1985
State
Montana
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildland fire use
MTBS fire identifier
MT4755711337219850629
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other

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 198510

FireAcresStartCause
Sandpoint Fire10,431Jul 3, 1985
Unnamed Fire8,024
Hilltop Fire2,580
Printz Ridge Fire1,853Jul 8, 1985
Broncosam Fire1,828
G 10 E Fire1,617May 6, 1985
Hellgate Fire1,601Jul 12, 1985
NoName Fire1,432
West Gulch Fire1,159Jul 20, 1985
Gibbons Pass Fire1,027Jul 8, 1985

Every fire of 1985 Montana 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. 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.