Van Dusen Fire
The Van Dusen Fire burned 39,868 acres in Idaho, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to August 10, 1986.
- Size
- 39,868 acres
- Ignition
- August 10, 1986
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 39,868 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.036, -116.443.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 39,868 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 31,012 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 10, 1986
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4403611644319860810
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
- Note on the perimeter
- F108 AND F109 TOGETHER
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Sheep Head Fire | 12,599 | Jun 24, 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.