Wildfires of 1985

Hellgate Fire

1985MontanaWildfire

The Hellgate Fire burned 1,601 acres in Montana, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 12, 1985.

Size
1,601 acres
Ignition
July 12, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,601 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.852, -113.938.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,601 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 12, 1985
State
Montana
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4685211393819850712
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Montana in 198510

FireAcresStartCause
Sandpoint Fire10,431Jul 3, 1985
Unnamed Fire8,024
Charlotte Peak Fire5,225Jun 29, 1985
Hilltop Fire2,580
Printz Ridge Fire1,853Jul 8, 1985
Broncosam Fire1,828
G 10 E Fire1,617May 6, 1985
NoName Fire1,432
West Gulch Fire1,159Jul 20, 1985
Gibbons Pass Fire1,027Jul 8, 1985

Every fire of 1985 Montana fire history

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Sources

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.