Hussey Creek Fire
The Hussey Creek Fire burned 1,024 acres in Montana, in 1992. It was discovered on September 30, 1992.
- Size
- 1,024 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1992
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,113 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.483, -110.984.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,024 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,113 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1992, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Montana
- Reporting unit
- Central Land Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4648311098419920930
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- MT1992CES070
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 199210
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blank Fire | 7,379 | Sep 24, 1992 | Natural |
| Rdoorecmpx Fire | 4,000 | Apr 2, 1992 | Human |
| Lodgepole Fire | 2,805 | ||
| Northridge Fire | 2,000 | May 3, 1992 | Human |
| Lodgepole Fire | 1,650 | Jun 11, 1992 | Natural |
| Black Butte Fire | 1,466 | Sep 29, 1992 | |
| Power Fire | 1,200 | Mar 12, 1992 | |
| Watkins Fire | 1,200 | May 18, 1992 | Natural |
| Mike Fire | 1,190 | Mar 23, 1992 | Human |
| Old Anders Fire | 1,000 | May 18, 1992 | Natural |
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. 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.