Anaconda Fire
The Anaconda Fire burned 10,812 acres in Montana, in 1999. It was discovered on August 6, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,812 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 1999
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,460 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.645, -114.128.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,812 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,460 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 10,815 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 1999, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Glacier National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- MTGNP
- Incident type
- Wildland fire use
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-MTGNP-000013
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4868711403819990806
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-263406
- Perimeter map method
- Autonomous GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishel Creek Fire | 33,000 | Jul 24, 1999 | Natural |
| Johnstone Fire | 7,800 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Outlook Fire | 6,952 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Powder River Complex | 6,480 | Aug 27, 1999 | Natural |
| Antelope Fire | 5,113 | Oct 31, 1999 | |
| Christmas Fire | 4,400 | Dec 16, 1999 | Human |
| Pine Ridge Fire | 3,900 | Aug 20, 1999 | Natural |
| Mill Iron Fire | 3,800 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Horse Thie Fire | 3,500 | Jul 24, 1999 | Natural |
| Teddy Creek Fire | 2,516 | Oct 14, 1999 | Human |
| Halloween Fire | 2,436 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Edgar Fire | 2,173 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
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. 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.