Jay West Fire
The Jay West Fire burned 1,629 acres in Idaho, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to August 25, 1988.
- Size
- 1,629 acres
- Ignition
- August 25, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,629 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.482, -114.750.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,629 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,586 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 25, 1988
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDNCF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-IDNCF-000097
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4648211475019880825
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- changed Jay West 1586 acr 2/23/07
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.