Wildfires of 2003

Poll Haven Fire

2003MontanaWildfire

The Poll Haven Fire burned 4,494 acres in Montana, in 2003. MTBS dates its ignition to October 19, 2003.

Size
4,494 acres
Ignition
October 19, 2003

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,494 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 49.020, -113.601.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,494 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,225 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 19, 2003
State
Montana
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
MTGNP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2003-MTGNP-000046
MTBS fire identifier
MT4902111360120031019
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter map method
Autonomous GPS
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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

FireAcresStartCause
Missouri Breaks Complex125,900Jul 19, 2003Natural
Germaine Fire66,497
Robert Fire57,273Jul 23, 2003Human
Wedge Canyon Fire50,981Jul 18, 2003Natural
Lincoln Complex (Snowbank) Fire37,405Aug 13, 2003Natural
Hobble Fire36,180Aug 8, 2003Natural
Indian Fire33,955
Fish Creek Complex (Thompson Creek) Fire33,948Aug 10, 2003Natural
Big Coulee Fire29,492
Cooney Ridge Fire25,680Aug 8, 2003Natural
Littlehawk Fire25,490Aug 12, 2003Natural
Mineral-Primm (Mineral and Primm) Fire25,202Aug 9, 2003Natural

Every fire of 2003 Montana fire history

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. 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.