Wildfires of 1987

Mann Creek Fire

1987IdahoWildfire

The Mann Creek Fire burned 6,015 acres in Idaho, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to September 2, 1987.

Size
6,015 acres
Ignition
September 2, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,015 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.368, -115.563.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,015 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
11,036 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
September 2, 1987
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDPAF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4536711581819870902
MTBS assessment
Extended

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 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Browns Crk Fire62,881
Deadwood Fire57,030Aug 4, 1987
Indian Tub Fire19,074
Bear Fire12,530
Harrington Fire12,048Sep 2, 1987
Gun Club Fire7,903
Airbase Fire7,733
Farrow Creek Fire5,838Sep 20, 1987
Crater II Fire5,498
Cove Fire5,371
Anchor Fire5,220Sep 2, 1987
Sob Fire5,144Sep 18, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Idaho fire history

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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.