Gap/Rough Creek Fire
The Gap/Rough Creek Fire burned 51,627 acres in Richland County, North Dakota, in 1999. It was discovered on October 31, 1999, and contained on November 6, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 51,627 acres
- Discovered
- October 31, 1999
- Contained
- November 6, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 53,682 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.671, -104.017.
The record
- Reported final size
- 51,627 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 53,682 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 59,608 acres
- Discovered
- October 31, 1999, 6:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- November 6, 1999, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- North Dakota
- County
- Richland County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NDDPF
- Part of
- Rough Creek Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-NDDPF-000041
- MTBS fire identifier
- ND4762110385319991031
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-353872
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Data - Mid Level
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 North Dakota in 19996
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rough Crk Fire | 7,979 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Solen Fire | 2,160 | Mar 26, 1999 | Human |
| Hough&juhl Fire | 1,320 | Oct 21, 1999 | Human |
| LD2305 Fire | 1,190 | Nov 1, 1999 | Human |
| Askvig Fire | 1,100 | Oct 31, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,062 | Nov 1, 1999 |
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.