Wildfires of 1996

Base Fire

1996IdahoWildfire

The Base Fire burned 2,933 acres in Idaho, in 1996. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
2,933 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,933 acres, mapped by digitized-topo. Middle of the perimeter, 43.120, -115.834.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
2,933 acres
State
Idaho
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
Perimeter map method
Digitized-Topo

Other large fires in Idaho in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Coxs Well Fire206,203Aug 27, 1996Natural
Richfield Fire178,459Jul 3, 1996Natural
SwetCreek Fire38,710Jul 23, 1996Natural
3 Creek Well Fire25,315Aug 20, 1996Human
Notch Butte Fire24,608Jul 2, 1996Human
Canyon Creek Fire23,024Aug 26, 1996Natural
Browns Gulch Fire22,374Jul 3, 1996Natural
Bridge Fire20,000Aug 27, 1996Natural
Davis Mountain Fire19,818Jul 25, 1996Human
Coyote Butte Fire18,165Jul 30, 1996Natural
Tip Top Fire16,261Oct 5, 1996Human
Salt Complex (Sheep Creek) Fire16,100Aug 14, 1996Natural

Every fire of 1996 Idaho 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. 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.