Wildfires of 1990

Gird Point Fire

1990MontanaWildfire

The Gird Point Fire burned 2,537 acres in Montana, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 14, 1990.

Size
2,537 acres
Ignition
July 14, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,537 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.211, -113.888.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,537 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,542 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 14, 1990
State
Montana
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4621111388819900714
MTBS assessment
Extended

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 199011

FireAcresStartCause
Turkey Fire25,644Nov 23, 1990
Veterans Fire23,680Nov 11, 1990
Beartooth Complex13,454Nov 13, 1990
Knowlton C Fire12,247Aug 22, 1990
Ridge Fire7,553Sep 12, 1990
Adams Fire3,074Oct 12, 1990
Quisno Fire3,019Aug 29, 1990
Iron Mountain Fire2,763Oct 5, 1990
Horse Shoe Fire2,025Sep 21, 1990
Dry Creek Fire1,431Aug 4, 1990
Green Wood Fire1,022Oct 9, 1990

Every fire of 1990 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.