Wildfires of 1991

Bear Trap Fire

1991IdahoWildfire

The Bear Trap Fire burned 2,389 acres in Idaho, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to July 23, 1991.

Size
2,389 acres
Ignition
July 23, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,389 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.948, -113.329.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,389 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 23, 1991
State
Idaho
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4294811332919910723
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Idaho in 199112

FireAcresStartCause
Stevens Pk Fire9,751Aug 23, 1991
Rush Creek Fire8,313Aug 14, 1991
Hansel Mountain Fire6,382Jul 15, 1991
Garden Pk Fire5,648Aug 23, 1991
3 Creek Well Fire4,063Jul 14, 1991
Rackliff Fire3,768Sep 24, 1991
Sw Split Fire3,687Aug 23, 1991
Jarbidge Fire3,604Jul 13, 1991
Blacktail Fire3,401Aug 8, 1991
Red Canyon Fire3,262Aug 20, 1991
Wheatgrass Fire3,141Aug 26, 1991
Mckim Fire3,095Aug 25, 1991

Every fire of 1991 Idaho fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.