Baker Fire
The Baker Fire burned 2,333 acres in Sanders County, Montana, in 2005. It was discovered on July 25, 2005. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 2,333 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,288 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.476, -114.841.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,333 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,288 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,239 acres
- Discovered
- July 25, 2005
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Montana
- County
- Sanders County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Northwestern Land Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4747311483920050725
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MT00880505-NWS405
- Note on the perimeter
- Not in FIRESTAT
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 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Signal Rock Fire | 13,327 | Aug 9, 2005 | Natural |
| I-90 Complex (Tarkio) Fire | 9,082 | Aug 4, 2005 | Human |
| Seepay 2 Fire | 8,500 | Aug 28, 2005 | Human |
| Rockin Fire | 6,869 | Aug 3, 2005 | Natural |
| Sheep Fire | 6,778 | Sep 9, 2005 | Natural |
| Heartland Fire | 6,689 | Sep 9, 2005 | Natural |
| Big Horn Fire | 5,800 | Jul 16, 2005 | Natural |
| Hazard Lake Wfu Fire | 5,731 | Aug 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Kelly Point Fire | 3,875 | Aug 6, 2005 | Human |
| Cottonwood Creek Fire | 3,485 | Aug 26, 2005 | Natural |
| Prospect Fire | 3,200 | Aug 6, 2005 | Natural |
| Erickson Spring Fire | 2,700 | Aug 22, 2005 | 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.