Wildfires of 2004

Pine Hill Fire

2004Stillwater County, MontanaWildfire

The Pine Hill Fire burned 2,022 acres in Stillwater County, Montana, in 2004. It was discovered on September 2, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,022 acres
Discovered
September 2, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,644 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.702, -109.534.

The record

Reported final size
2,022 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,644 acres
Discovered
September 2, 2004
Cause
Natural
State
Montana
County
Stillwater County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Southern Land Office
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4569110954120040902
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-MT00870404-SOS003

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

FireAcresStartCause
Little Bradshaw Fire3,387Aug 1, 2004Natural
Lacey Gulch Fire3,040May 9, 2004Human
Cook Mountain Fire1,800May 5, 2004Natural
Anderson Drainage Fire1,310May 5, 2004Natural
Coal Fire1,050Jul 14, 2004Natural

Every fire of 2004 Montana fire history

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Sources

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.