Harrington Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,048 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.300, -114.225.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

12,048 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

3,519 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

September 2, 1987

State

Idaho

Agency

Bureau of Land Management

Unit

IDSTF

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

ID4230011422519870902

MTBS assessment

Extended

Perimeter records

2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

Note on the perimeter

Fire extends further into FS land

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

• Hansen, ID16 miles north of the fire
• Kimberly, ID18 miles northwest of the fire
• Twin Falls, ID22 miles northwest of the fire
• Filer, ID27 miles northwest of the fire
• Burley, ID27 miles northeast of the fire
• Heyburn, ID30 miles northeast 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.