Farrow Creek Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,838 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.295, -114.857.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

5,838 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

6,804 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

September 20, 1987

State

Idaho

Agency

Forest Service

Unit

IDPAF

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

ID4531711488419870920

MTBS assessment

Extended

Note on the perimeter

Old Schema Fire Cause - "9 miscellaneous" and placed into "Other Human Caused" based on NWCG PMS 412 2016 handbook

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.

Every fire of 1987 Idaho fire history

• Salmon, ID47 miles east of the fire
• Challis, ID63 miles southeast of the fire
• McCall, ID66 miles southwest of the fire
• Hamilton, MT74 miles northeast of the fire
• Grangeville, ID75 miles northwest of the fire
• Kamiah, ID86 miles northwest of the fire

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.