Rattler Fire
The Rattler Fire burned 1,113 acres in Idaho, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to July 29, 1990.
- Size
- 1,113 acres
- Ignition
- July 29, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,113 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.012, -115.825.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,113 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 997 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 29, 1990
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4203311578419900729
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
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 199012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thorn Creek Fire | 70,381 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Indian Springs Fire | 11,811 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Castle Ck Fire | 10,434 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Whiskey Butte Fire | 7,389 | Aug 3, 1990 | |
| Sabe Creek Fire | 3,740 | Jul 7, 1990 | |
| Chamberlain Fire | 3,413 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Little Park Fire | 3,318 | ||
| Hog Creek Fire | 2,448 | Jul 20, 1990 | |
| Ireland Sum Fire | 2,250 | Aug 10, 1990 | |
| Wildhorse Creek Fire | 2,248 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Badger Creek Fire | 1,921 | Aug 15, 1990 | |
| Pigtail Fire | 1,855 | Aug 29, 1990 |
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.