Pay-Gem Fire
The Pay-Gem Fire burned 1,363 acres in Idaho, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to June 28, 1985.
- Size
- 1,363 acres
- Ignition
- June 28, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,363 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.864, -116.715.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,363 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,022 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 28, 1985
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4386411671519850628
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- 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 198512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crows Nest Fire | 62,760 | Jul 6, 1985 | |
| Butte Fire | 28,560 | Jul 20, 1985 | |
| Garat 1 Fire | 26,189 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| House Ck Fire | 20,687 | Aug 15, 1985 | |
| 3 Creek Well Fire | 19,001 | Jul 8, 1985 | |
| Blacks Ck Fire | 18,611 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| French Creek Fire | 14,561 | ||
| Wintercamp Fire | 13,928 | Jul 6, 1985 | |
| Bop Fire | 13,885 | Jul 7, 1985 | |
| W. Clover Fire | 12,467 | Jun 20, 1985 | |
| Savage Creek Fire | 12,110 | ||
| Hot Cr Fire | 10,539 | Jul 6, 1985 |
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.