Wildfires of 2002

Owinza Fire

2002IdahoWildfire

The Owinza Fire burned 8,874 acres in Idaho, in 2002. MTBS dates its ignition to October 8, 2002.

Size
8,874 acres
Ignition
October 8, 2002

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,874 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.955, -114.017.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
8,874 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 8, 2002
State
Idaho
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4296411404620021008
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in Idaho in 200212

FireAcresStartCause
Horse Butte Fire10,422Aug 4, 2002Natural
Horse Skin Fire8,140Jul 25, 2002Natural
Jack Knife Fire6,786Jul 8, 2002Natural
Jim Burns Fire5,237Jul 7, 2002Natural
Frank Church Complex (Little Horse) Fire4,965Aug 4, 2002Natural
Clot Fire4,218Jul 22, 2002Natural
Chip Fire3,629Jul 13, 2002Natural
Grinder Fire3,459Jun 26, 2002Natural
Kimama Fire3,433Jun 25, 2002
Kelly Creek Fire3,359Aug 18, 2002Human
Big Crow Fire2,800Jul 15, 2002Natural
Web Fire2,583Jul 8, 2002Natural

Every fire of 2002 Idaho 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. 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.