Sheep Head Fire
The Sheep Head Fire burned 12,599 acres in Idaho, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to June 24, 1986.
- Size
- 12,599 acres
- Ignition
- June 24, 1986
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,599 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.413, -115.568.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,599 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,918 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 24, 1986
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4241311556819860624
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- 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 198612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blue Butte Fire | 62,430 | Aug 10, 1986 | |
| Bissell Ck Fire | 40,816 | Aug 10, 1986 | |
| Van Dusen Fire | 39,868 | Aug 10, 1986 | |
| Ringer Fire | 24,299 | Aug 7, 1986 | |
| Big Lake Fire | 23,848 | Jun 25, 1986 | |
| Shadow Val Fire | 23,513 | ||
| Georgeway Fire | 22,732 | Aug 2, 1986 | |
| West Anderson Fire | 19,684 | Aug 10, 1986 | |
| Dorsey Bt Fire | 15,810 | Aug 7, 1986 | |
| Willow Creek Complex | 13,650 | Aug 7, 1986 | |
| Willow Ck Fire | 12,072 | ||
| Juniper Fire | 11,889 | Aug 3, 1986 |
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.