Milepost 59 Fire
The Milepost 59 Fire burned 4,000 acres in Idaho, in 2003. It was discovered on August 14, 2003, and contained on September 28, 2003. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2003
- Contained
- September 28, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,360 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.283, -116.118.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,360 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,050 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2003, 9:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 28, 2003, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Nez Perce Tribe
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDNCF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4628211612820030814
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-443190
- Note on the perimeter
- Owner: ID
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.