Herd Fire
The Herd Fire burned 2,081 acres in Montana, in 1997. It was discovered on October 17, 1997, and contained on October 17, 1997. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 2,081 acres
- Discovered
- October 17, 1997
- Contained
- October 17, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,260 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.200, -108.417.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,081 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,260 acres
- Discovered
- October 17, 1997, 2:40 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 17, 1997, 10:00 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
- MT4818610842119971017
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-362016
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ca Road Fire | 2,000 | Mar 19, 1997 | Human |
| T.k.fire | 1,205 | Sep 17, 1997 |
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.