Wildfires of 1988

Duval Coul Fire

1988MontanaWildfire

The Duval Coul Fire burned 1,361 acres in Montana, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 18, 1988.

Size
1,361 acres
Ignition
June 18, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,361 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 47.639, -108.651.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,361 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,268 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 18, 1988
State
Montana
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
MTNRC
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4763910865119880618
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
in Malta FO

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 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
Bainville Fire12,774Jun 10, 1988
Dry Fork Fire11,407Aug 25, 1988
Slick Fire9,743Aug 13, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Montana 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.