Buffalocrk Fire
The Buffalocrk Fire burned 1,436 acres in Powder River County, Montana, in 2003. It was discovered on August 13, 2003, and contained on August 21, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,436 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 2003
- Contained
- August 21, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,799 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.008, -105.767.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,436 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,799 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,081 acres
- Discovered
- August 13, 2003, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- August 21, 2003, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Powder River County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Miles City Field Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Part of
- Eastern Montana Fire Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4503810577120030813
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- W-117988
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- FIRE REPORT NOT AVAILABLE FOR REPORTED ACRES INFORMATION
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Missouri Breaks Complex | 125,900 | Jul 19, 2003 | Natural |
| Germaine Fire | 66,497 | ||
| Robert Fire | 57,273 | Jul 23, 2003 | Human |
| Wedge Canyon Fire | 50,981 | Jul 18, 2003 | Natural |
| Lincoln Complex (Snowbank) Fire | 37,405 | Aug 13, 2003 | Natural |
| Hobble Fire | 36,180 | Aug 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Indian Fire | 33,955 | ||
| Fish Creek Complex (Thompson Creek) Fire | 33,948 | Aug 10, 2003 | Natural |
| Big Coulee Fire | 29,492 | ||
| Cooney Ridge Fire | 25,680 | Aug 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Littlehawk Fire | 25,490 | Aug 12, 2003 | Natural |
| Mineral-Primm (Mineral and Primm) Fire | 25,202 | Aug 9, 2003 | 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.