Sheep Creek Fire
The Sheep Creek Fire burned 2,016 acres in Montana, in 2002. It was discovered on August 15, 2002, and contained on August 26, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,016 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2002
- Contained
- August 26, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,954 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.683, -113.767.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,016 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,954 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,999 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2002, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 26, 2002, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4567611375020020815
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-380947
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- BDNF
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 |
| Fox Creek Fire | 6,300 | Jul 11, 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 |
| 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.