Wheatgrass Fire
The Wheatgrass Fire burned 3,141 acres in Idaho, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to August 26, 1991.
- Size
- 3,141 acres
- Ignition
- August 26, 1991
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,141 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.774, -112.724.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,141 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,950 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 26, 1991
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4277411272419910826
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
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 199112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stevens Pk Fire | 9,751 | Aug 23, 1991 | |
| Rush Creek Fire | 8,313 | Aug 14, 1991 | |
| Hansel Mountain Fire | 6,382 | Jul 15, 1991 | |
| Garden Pk Fire | 5,648 | Aug 23, 1991 | |
| 3 Creek Well Fire | 4,063 | Jul 14, 1991 | |
| Rackliff Fire | 3,768 | Sep 24, 1991 | |
| Sw Split Fire | 3,687 | Aug 23, 1991 | |
| Jarbidge Fire | 3,604 | Jul 13, 1991 | |
| Blacktail Fire | 3,401 | Aug 8, 1991 | |
| Red Canyon Fire | 3,262 | Aug 20, 1991 | |
| Mckim Fire | 3,095 | Aug 25, 1991 | |
| Rrmp 431 Fire | 2,946 | Jul 9, 1991 |
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.