Wildfires of 1999

Grandview Fire

1999Power County, IdahoWildfire

The Grandview Fire burned 23,007 acres in Power County, Idaho, in 1999. It was discovered on September 18, 1999, and contained on September 20, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
23,007 acres
Discovered
September 18, 1999
Contained
September 20, 1999
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 23,029 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.088, -113.024.

The record

Reported final size
23,007 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
23,029 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
23,586 acres
Discovered
September 18, 1999, 10:25 p.m. local time
Contained
September 20, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Power County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Idaho Falls District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4308711302219990918
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-91953

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 Idaho in 199912

FireAcresStartCause
Mule Butte Fire132,208Aug 3, 1999Natural
Cedar Butte Fire49,364Jul 20, 1999Natural
Ineel Fire43,532Aug 21, 1999
East Slick Fire35,041Aug 30, 1999Human
Wedge Butte Fire16,266Jul 11, 1999Human
Norton Creek Fire7,878Aug 25, 1999Natural
West Shoofly Fire7,502Aug 23, 1999Natural
Whiskey Butte Fire7,187Jun 24, 1999Natural
Middle Butte Fire6,908Aug 23, 1999Natural
Buck N Doe Fire6,455Aug 3, 1999Natural
Broken Wagon Fire5,026Aug 12, 1999Natural
Mallard Lake Fire4,897Sep 9, 1999Human

Every fire of 1999 Idaho fire history

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.