Jack Knife Fire
The Jack Knife Fire burned 6,786 acres in Gem County, Idaho, in 2002. It was discovered on July 8, 2002, and contained on July 12, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,786 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2002
- Contained
- July 12, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,873 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.117, -116.348.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,786 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,873 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,792 acres
- Discovered
- July 8, 2002, 2:40 a.m. local time
- Contained
- July 12, 2002, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Gem County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Boise District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- IDIDS
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4412211634420020708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-108978
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
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 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horse Butte Fire | 10,422 | Aug 4, 2002 | Natural |
| Owinza Fire | 8,874 | Oct 8, 2002 | |
| Horse Skin Fire | 8,140 | Jul 25, 2002 | Natural |
| Jim Burns Fire | 5,237 | Jul 7, 2002 | Natural |
| Frank Church Complex (Little Horse) Fire | 4,965 | Aug 4, 2002 | Natural |
| Clot Fire | 4,218 | Jul 22, 2002 | Natural |
| Chip Fire | 3,629 | Jul 13, 2002 | Natural |
| Grinder Fire | 3,459 | Jun 26, 2002 | Natural |
| Kimama Fire | 3,433 | Jun 25, 2002 | |
| Kelly Creek Fire | 3,359 | Aug 18, 2002 | Human |
| Big Crow Fire | 2,800 | Jul 15, 2002 | Natural |
| Web Fire | 2,583 | Jul 8, 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.