Little Bradshaw Fire
The Little Bradshaw Fire burned 3,387 acres in Powder River County, Montana, in 2004. It was discovered on August 1, 2004, and contained on August 7, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,387 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2004
- Contained
- August 7, 2004
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,838 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.167, -106.092.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,387 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,838 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,568 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2004, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 7, 2004, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Powder River County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Custer Gallatin National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4518010611320040801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-399396
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Information is from Wildland Fire Report
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 20045
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lacey Gulch Fire | 3,040 | May 9, 2004 | Human |
| Pine Hill Fire | 2,022 | Sep 2, 2004 | Natural |
| Cook Mountain Fire | 1,800 | May 5, 2004 | Natural |
| Anderson Drainage Fire | 1,310 | May 5, 2004 | Natural |
| Coal Fire | 1,050 | Jul 14, 2004 | 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.