Sandpoint Fire
The Sandpoint Fire burned 10,431 acres in Montana, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 3, 1985.
- Size
- 10,431 acres
- Ignition
- July 3, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,431 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.796, -110.489.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,431 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,333 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 3, 1985
- State
- Montana
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4679611048919850703
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- cost = NA
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 8,024 | ||
| Charlotte Peak Fire | 5,225 | Jun 29, 1985 | |
| Hilltop Fire | 2,580 | ||
| Printz Ridge Fire | 1,853 | Jul 8, 1985 | |
| Broncosam Fire | 1,828 | ||
| G 10 E Fire | 1,617 | May 6, 1985 | |
| Hellgate Fire | 1,601 | Jul 12, 1985 | |
| NoName Fire | 1,432 | ||
| West Gulch Fire | 1,159 | Jul 20, 1985 | |
| Gibbons Pass Fire | 1,027 | Jul 8, 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.