Wildfires of 1995

Mayor Fire

1995MontanaWildfire

The Mayor Fire burned 1,300 acres in Montana, in 1995. It was discovered on February 24, 1995, and contained on February 24, 1995. The cause was recorded as smoking.

Size
1,300 acres
Discovered
February 24, 1995
Contained
February 24, 1995
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,176 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.033, -108.684.

The record

Reported final size
1,300 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,176 acres
Discovered
February 24, 1995, 2:51 p.m. local time
Contained
February 24, 1995, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Smoking
State
Montana
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Fort Belknap Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4802910868119950224
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-361793

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 19955

FireAcresStartCause
Grant Coul Fire3,506Sep 26, 1995Human
Battlefiel Fire2,500Sep 5, 1995Human
West Pryor Fire1,800Jul 29, 1995Natural
Rosebud/Custer Complex1,581Aug 7, 1995Natural
Flat Top Fire1,515Aug 30, 1995Human

Every fire of 1995 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.