Hot Creek Fire
The Hot Creek Fire burned 26,560 acres in Idaho, in 2003. It was discovered on July 19, 2003, and contained on August 23, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 26,560 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2003
- Contained
- August 23, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 27,024 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.819, -115.317.
The record
- Reported final size
- 26,560 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 27,024 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 26,882 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2003, 5:35 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 23, 2003, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Boise National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDBOF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4380211525420030719
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-394260
- Note on the perimeter
- Local Fire Number not provided in FireStat
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 |
| 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 |
| South Fork Fire | 6,970 | Aug 10, 2003 | Human |
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.