Wildfires of 1988

Bainville Fire

1988MontanaWildfire

The Bainville Fire burned 12,774 acres in Montana, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 10, 1988.

Size
12,774 acres
Ignition
June 10, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,774 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.072, -104.076.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
12,774 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 10, 1988
State
Montana
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4807210407619880610
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Some decidous burned on the scar hence the moderate threshold on a grass fire

Other large fires in Montana in 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Canyon Creek Fire167,806Jun 25, 1988
Storm Creek Fire115,951Jun 19, 1988
Brewer Fire48,246Jun 20, 1988
Gates Park Fire42,484Jul 11, 1988
Canyon Creek Fire35,835Aug 9, 1988
Red Bench Fire33,850Sep 6, 1988
Earlybird Fire21,717Jun 4, 1988
Schiller Fire15,522Jul 12, 1988
Kirby Fire14,250Aug 19, 1988
Dry Fork Fire11,407Aug 25, 1988
Slick Fire9,743Aug 13, 1988
Combination Fire8,587Aug 25, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Montana fire history

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Sources

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.