Wildfires of 1988

Stewart Fire

1988IdahoWildfire

The Stewart Fire burned 2,486 acres in Idaho, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to August 2, 1988.

Size
2,486 acres
Ignition
August 2, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,486 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 43.683, -116.152.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,486 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,487 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 2, 1988
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4368311615219880802
MTBS assessment
Initial
Perimeter map method
Other Agency Digital
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
MTBS Perimeter. Primarily on State / BLM

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

FireAcresStartCause
Golden Fire48,138Aug 24, 1988
Sliver Creek Fire45,068Jul 11, 1988
Ladder Fire42,334Aug 13, 1988
Battleaxe Fire39,516
Cabin Fire25,883Jun 25, 1988
Freeman Trail Fire19,497Aug 11, 1988
North Fork Fire14,407
Unnamed Fire14,349Sep 4, 1988
Footstool Fire12,743Aug 14, 1988
Metcalf Fire11,937Aug 10, 1988
Brkn Wagon Fire9,901Aug 24, 1988
Mccarte Ridge Fire8,311Jul 5, 1988

Every fire of 1988 Idaho 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.