Hill City Blues 2 Fire
The Hill City Blues 2 Fire burned 2,273 acres in Elmore County, Idaho, in 2003. It was discovered on October 22, 2003, and contained on October 24, 2003. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,273 acres
- Discovered
- October 22, 2003
- Contained
- October 24, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,522 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.338, -115.133.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,273 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,522 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,656 acres
- Discovered
- October 22, 2003, 11:10 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 24, 2003, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Elmore County
- Reporting unit
- Sawtooth National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDTFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2003-IDSHD-000524
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4335611513420031022
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-392980
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Fire | 37,843 | Aug 5, 2003 | Natural |
| Hot Creek Fire | 26,560 | Jul 19, 2003 | Natural |
| Middle Fork Complex (Falconberry) Fire | 25,007 | Aug 10, 2003 | Human |
| Owinza Fire | 15,789 | May 30, 2003 | |
| Tobias Fire | 13,843 | Jul 12, 2003 | Human |
| Beaver Lake Complex (Beaver Lakes) Fire | 12,467 | Aug 8, 2003 | Natural |
| Menan Fire | 12,068 | Aug 12, 2003 | Natural |
| Slims Complex (Slims) Fire | 12,011 | Jul 15, 2003 | Natural |
| Cayuse Lake Complex (Pettibone Creek) Fire | 11,833 | Aug 21, 2003 | Natural |
| Withington Fire | 10,567 | Aug 11, 2003 | Natural |
| Sapp (Sapp) Fire | 9,674 | Aug 9, 2003 | Natural |
| Black Frog Complex (Frog Pond) Fire | 7,275 | Jul 12, 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.