Red Bench Fire
The Red Bench Fire burned 33,850 acres in Montana, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to September 6, 1988.
- Size
- 33,850 acres
- Ignition
- September 6, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 33,850 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.787, -114.262.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 33,850 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 36,017 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 6, 1988
- State
- Montana
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- MTGNP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-MTGNP-000027
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4878711426219880906
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter map method
- Heads-up Digitized
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Canyon Creek Fire | 167,806 | Jun 25, 1988 | |
| Storm Creek Fire | 115,951 | Jun 19, 1988 | |
| Brewer Fire | 48,246 | Jun 20, 1988 | |
| Gates Park Fire | 42,484 | Jul 11, 1988 | |
| Canyon Creek Fire | 35,835 | Aug 9, 1988 | |
| Earlybird Fire | 21,717 | Jun 4, 1988 | |
| Schiller Fire | 15,522 | Jul 12, 1988 | |
| Kirby Fire | 14,250 | Aug 19, 1988 | |
| Bainville Fire | 12,774 | Jun 10, 1988 | |
| Dry Fork Fire | 11,407 | Aug 25, 1988 | |
| Slick Fire | 9,743 | Aug 13, 1988 | |
| Combination Fire | 8,587 | Aug 25, 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.