Wildfires of 1994

HighOne Fire

1994MontanaWildfire

The HighOne Fire burned 1,300 acres in Montana, in 1994. It was discovered on August 15, 1994, and contained on September 30, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,300 acres
Discovered
August 15, 1994
Contained
September 30, 1994
Cause
Natural

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 48.908, -114.928.

The record

Reported final size
1,300 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
740 acres
Discovered
August 15, 1994, 7:00 a.m. local time
Contained
September 30, 1994, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Montana
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Kootenai National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
MTKNF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1994-MTKNF-000319
Fire occurrence record
FS-287863
Perimeter map method
Digitized Other

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 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Baby Dean Fire60,300Sep 8, 1994Human
Black Butte Fire12,500Sep 8, 1994Natural
Ck Creek Fire11,067Aug 3, 1994Natural
Little Wolf Fire10,610Aug 15, 1994Natural
Koocanusa Complex (North Fork Big Creek) Fire9,000Aug 15, 1994Natural
Helen Creek Fire8,497Aug 16, 1994Natural
Henry Peak Fire8,203Jul 26, 1994Natural
North Fork Complex (Adair Ii) Fire8,055Aug 12, 1994Natural
Mcdonald Fire7,494Aug 15, 1994Natural
Grierson Fire6,400Aug 22, 1994
Yaak-Red Dragon Complex (Sheep) Fire5,897Aug 15, 1994Natural
Cunningham Fire5,000Sep 9, 1994

Every fire of 1994 Montana fire history

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. 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.