Wildfires of 2000

Stove Fire

2000Treasure County, MontanaWildfire

The Stove Fire burned 2,400 acres in Treasure County, Montana, in 2000. It was discovered on July 2, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,400 acres
Discovered
July 2, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,276 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.412, -107.631.

The record

Reported final size
2,400 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,276 acres
Discovered
July 2, 2000
Cause
Natural
State
Montana
County
Treasure County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Southern Land Office
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4643710762120000702
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-MT01500600-299

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
Valley Complex (Bear) Fire145,040Jul 31, 2000Natural
Toston-Maudlow Fire81,220Aug 15, 2000Human
Stag Fire61,649Jul 26, 2000Natural
Sula Complex (Maynard) Fire48,300Jul 31, 2000Natural
Mussigbrod Complex (Mussigbrod) Fire46,681Jul 31, 2000Natural
Bear Fire42,326
Canyon Ferry Complex (Cave Gulch) Fire30,000Jul 23, 2000Human
Monture-Spread Ridge (Monture) Fire23,802Jul 13, 2000Natural
Valley Complex (Coyote) Fire21,998Jul 31, 2000Natural
Taylor Springs Fires Fire21,487Jul 31, 2000Natural
Upper Ninemile Complex (Nine Mile) Fire17,817Aug 4, 2000Natural
Ryan Gulch Fire17,118Aug 6, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Montana fire history

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.