Wildfires of 1992

Rdoorecmpx Fire

1992MontanaWildfire

The Rdoorecmpx Fire burned 4,000 acres in Montana, in 1992. It was discovered on April 2, 1992, and contained on April 2, 1992. The cause was recorded as smoking.

Size
4,000 acres
Discovered
April 2, 1992
Contained
April 2, 1992
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,083 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.550, -112.951.

The record

Reported final size
4,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,083 acres
Discovered
April 2, 1992, 10:20 a.m. local time
Contained
April 2, 1992, 11:59 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Smoking
State
Montana
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Blackfeet Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4850911285019920402
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-353936

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

FireAcresStartCause
Blank Fire7,379Sep 24, 1992Natural
Lodgepole Fire2,805
Northridge Fire2,000May 3, 1992Human
Lodgepole Fire1,650Jun 11, 1992Natural
Black Butte Fire1,466Sep 29, 1992
Power Fire1,200Mar 12, 1992
Watkins Fire1,200May 18, 1992Natural
Mike Fire1,190Mar 23, 1992Human
Hussey Creek Fire1,024Sep 30, 1992
Old Anders Fire1,000May 18, 1992Natural

Every fire of 1992 Montana 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. 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.