Wildfires of 1986

Cow Creek Fire

1986MontanaWildfire

The Cow Creek Fire burned 1,196 acres in Montana, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to August 10, 1986.

Size
1,196 acres
Ignition
August 10, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,196 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.027, -106.217.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,196 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 10, 1986
State
Montana
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4602710621719860810
MTBS assessment
Extended

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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.