Beacon Fire
The Beacon Fire burned 1,142 acres in Idaho, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 16, 1988.
- Size
- 1,142 acres
- Ignition
- June 16, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,142 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.699, -112.608.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,142 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,475 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 16, 1988
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4269911260819880616
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
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 198812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Golden Fire | 48,138 | Aug 24, 1988 | |
| Sliver Creek Fire | 45,068 | Jul 11, 1988 | |
| Ladder Fire | 42,334 | Aug 13, 1988 | |
| Battleaxe Fire | 39,516 | ||
| Cabin Fire | 25,883 | Jun 25, 1988 | |
| Freeman Trail Fire | 19,497 | Aug 11, 1988 | |
| North Fork Fire | 14,407 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 14,349 | Sep 4, 1988 | |
| Footstool Fire | 12,743 | Aug 14, 1988 | |
| Metcalf Fire | 11,937 | Aug 10, 1988 | |
| Brkn Wagon Fire | 9,901 | Aug 24, 1988 | |
| Mccarte Ridge Fire | 8,311 | Jul 5, 1988 |
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.