Wildfires of 1995

Camp One Fire

1995IdahoWildfire

The Camp One Fire burned 1,307 acres in Idaho, in 1995. It was discovered on August 21, 1995, and contained on August 22, 1995. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,307 acres
Discovered
August 21, 1995
Contained
August 22, 1995
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,405 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.834, -114.234.

The record

Reported final size
1,307 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,405 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,302 acres
Discovered
August 21, 1995, 5:10 p.m. local time
Contained
August 22, 1995, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Twin Falls District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4282311423119950821
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-23279

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 199512

FireAcresStartCause
Tuana Complex64,193Jul 29, 1995Natural
Twin Butte Fire30,237Jul 28, 1995Natural
Bear Trap Fire20,500Aug 7, 1995Human
Blue Gulch Fire15,234Jul 30, 1995Natural
S. Clover Fire13,319
Point Fire11,622Jul 28, 1995Natural
Signal Butte Fire6,698Oct 15, 1995Human
Initial Pt Fire6,237Jul 2, 1995Human
INEEL Fire5,953
Laidlaw Fire5,478Aug 22, 1995Natural
Crossroad Fire4,291Sep 2, 1995Natural
Blackfoot Fire3,980Oct 7, 1995Human

Every fire of 1995 Idaho fire history

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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.