Buck Fire
The Buck Fire burned 2,512 acres in Idaho, in 1999. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.
- Size
- 2,512 acres
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 2,512 acres, mapped by gps-flight. Middle of the perimeter, 42.377, -115.310.
The record
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,512 acres
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
Other large fires in Idaho in 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mule Butte Fire | 132,208 | Aug 3, 1999 | Natural |
| Cedar Butte Fire | 49,364 | Jul 20, 1999 | Natural |
| Ineel Fire | 43,532 | Aug 21, 1999 | |
| East Slick Fire | 35,041 | Aug 30, 1999 | Human |
| Grandview Fire | 23,007 | Sep 18, 1999 | Natural |
| Wedge Butte Fire | 16,266 | Jul 11, 1999 | Human |
| Norton Creek Fire | 7,878 | Aug 25, 1999 | Natural |
| West Shoofly Fire | 7,502 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
| Whiskey Butte Fire | 7,187 | Jun 24, 1999 | Natural |
| Middle Butte Fire | 6,908 | Aug 23, 1999 | Natural |
| Buck N Doe Fire | 6,455 | Aug 3, 1999 | Natural |
| Broken Wagon Fire | 5,026 | Aug 12, 1999 | Natural |
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.