Winslow Fire
The Winslow Fire burned 13,558 acres in Montana, in 2003. It was discovered on August 12, 2003, and contained on October 27, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 13,558 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2003
- Contained
- October 27, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,787 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.572, -111.914.
The record
- Reported final size
- 13,558 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,787 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 9,550 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2003, 2:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- October 27, 2003, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Winslow / Idaho
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4456311191420030812
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2003MTRLRF271
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- MT-CES
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.