Wildfires of 1989

Eagle Nest Fire

1989IdahoWildfire

The Eagle Nest Fire burned 3,227 acres in Idaho, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to July 26, 1989.

Size
3,227 acres
Ignition
July 26, 1989

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,227 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.647, -115.885.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,227 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,225 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 26, 1989
State
Idaho
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDBOF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4465011589619890726
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Other Agency Digital
Note on the perimeter
MTBS Perimeter

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 198912

FireAcresStartCause
Smokey Creek Fire47,660
Eagle Bar Fire14,153
Deer Creek Fire9,334Jul 26, 1989
Dollar Creek Fire9,323Jul 26, 1989
Partridge Fire8,726Jul 26, 1989
Deer Creek Fire8,409
Star Butte Fire8,299Jul 20, 1989
Johnson Butte Fire7,516Jul 20, 1989
Lunch Creek Fire7,421Jul 26, 1989
Canyon Ck Fire6,899Jul 15, 1989
Whang Doodle Fire6,783Jul 26, 1989
Curren Fire6,392Jul 26, 1989

Every fire of 1989 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.