Fox Creek Fire
The Fox Creek Fire burned 6,300 acres in Montana, in 2002. It was discovered on July 11, 2002, and contained on August 6, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,300 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2002
- Contained
- August 6, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,948 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.783, -113.301.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,300 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,948 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,680 acres
- Discovered
- July 11, 2002, 3:56 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 6, 2002, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Blackfeet Agency
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2002-MTGNP-000018
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4875911335020020711
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-355507
- Perimeter map method
- HeadsUp Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- NOTE: Not in the Pt of Origin feature class - MISSING WFMI Fire ID. This is a Blackfeet Reservation fire, visible from St Mary but not within park.
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kraft Springs Fire | 69,900 | Aug 30, 2002 | Natural |
| KraftSprings Fire | 69,447 | ||
| Line Creek Fire | 9,700 | Jun 28, 2002 | Natural |
| Red Waffle Fire | 5,859 | Jul 14, 2002 | Human |
| Cow Creek Fire | 5,495 | Sep 4, 2002 | Natural |
| Pishkun Fire | 5,000 | Feb 21, 2002 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,277 | Sep 4, 2002 | Natural |
| Steamboat Fire | 2,921 | Jul 16, 2002 | Human |
| Sheep Creek Fire | 2,016 | Aug 15, 2002 | Natural |
| Whitewater Fire | 1,652 | Apr 15, 2002 | Human |
| Brushlake Fire | 1,200 | May 3, 2002 | Human |
| Cap Rock 2 Fire | 1,000 | Apr 13, 2002 | 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. 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.