Wildfires of 1985

Shasta Fire

1985IdahoWildfire

The Shasta Fire burned 1,255 acres in Idaho, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 8, 1985.

Size
1,255 acres
Ignition
July 8, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,255 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.227, -114.941.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,255 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,016 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 8, 1985
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDNCF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1985-IDNCF-000013
MTBS fire identifier
ID4622711494119850708
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 Idaho in 198512

FireAcresStartCause
Crows Nest Fire62,760Jul 6, 1985
Butte Fire28,560Jul 20, 1985
Garat 1 Fire26,189Jul 7, 1985
House Ck Fire20,687Aug 15, 1985
3 Creek Well Fire19,001Jul 8, 1985
Blacks Ck Fire18,611Jul 7, 1985
French Creek Fire14,561
Wintercamp Fire13,928Jul 6, 1985
Bop Fire13,885Jul 7, 1985
W. Clover Fire12,467Jun 20, 1985
Savage Creek Fire12,110
Hot Cr Fire10,539Jul 6, 1985

Every fire of 1985 Idaho 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.