Ca Road Fire
The Ca Road Fire burned 2,000 acres in Yellowstone County, Montana, in 1997. It was discovered on March 19, 1997, and contained on March 19, 1997. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 19, 1997
- Contained
- March 19, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,400 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.083, -108.267.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,400 acres
- Discovered
- March 19, 1997, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 19, 1997, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Montana
- County
- Yellowstone County
- Reporting unit
- Miles City Field Office
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4612210822419970319
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-11209
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 19972
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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.