Rr Mp 416 Fire
The Rr Mp 416 Fire burned 2,806 acres in Idaho, in 1993. It was discovered on September 30, 1993, and contained on September 30, 1993. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 2,806 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1993
- Contained
- September 30, 1993
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,800 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.260, -115.905.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,806 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,800 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,936 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1993, 12:10 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 30, 1993, 10:10 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Boise District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4323311586419930930
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-34532
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
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.
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.