Crooked Creek Fire
The Crooked Creek Fire burned 23,654 acres in Idaho, in 1992. It was discovered on August 20, 1992, and contained on November 3, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 23,654 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 1992
- Contained
- November 3, 1992
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,882 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.478, -115.635.
The record
- Reported final size
- 23,654 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,882 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 33,466 acres
- Discovered
- August 20, 1992, 6:45 a.m. local time
- Contained
- November 3, 1992, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Nez Perce - Clearwater National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDNCF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1992-IDNCF-000166
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4549611561419920820
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-257522
- Note on the perimeter
- other fires w/in poly
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 199212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Foothills Fire | 177,544 | Aug 19, 1992 | Natural |
| Black Ridge Fire | 149,250 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| Sagehen Fire | 39,562 | Aug 3, 1992 | Natural |
| Ro Fire | 25,039 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| Potter Butte Fire | 19,225 | Aug 3, 1992 | Natural |
| Meadow Divide Fire | 18,443 | ||
| Windy Ridge Fire | 17,500 | Aug 19, 1992 | Natural |
| Porcupine Creek Fire | 13,925 | Aug 18, 1992 | Natural |
| Dunnigan 2 Fire | 12,860 | Sep 2, 1992 | Human |
| Well Field Fire | 12,677 | Aug 19, 1992 | Natural |
| Cow Hollow 2 Fire | 12,265 | Aug 2, 1992 | Natural |
| Great Rift Fire | 9,819 | Aug 3, 1992 | Natural |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.