Wildfires of 2005

Cedar Hollow Fire

2005Gallatin County, MontanaWildfire

The Cedar Hollow Fire burned 1,000 acres in Gallatin County, Montana, in 2005. It was discovered on April 13, 2005. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
April 13, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,867 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.699, -111.592.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,867 acres
Discovered
April 13, 2005
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Montana
County
Gallatin County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Central Land Office
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MT4569911159220050413
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-MT00880505-CES500

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

FireAcresStartCause
Signal Rock Fire13,327Aug 9, 2005Natural
I-90 Complex (Tarkio) Fire9,082Aug 4, 2005Human
Seepay 2 Fire8,500Aug 28, 2005Human
Rockin Fire6,869Aug 3, 2005Natural
Sheep Fire6,778Sep 9, 2005Natural
Heartland Fire6,689Sep 9, 2005Natural
Big Horn Fire5,800Jul 16, 2005Natural
Hazard Lake Wfu Fire5,731Aug 22, 2005Natural
Kelly Point Fire3,875Aug 6, 2005Human
Cottonwood Creek Fire3,485Aug 26, 2005Natural
Prospect Fire3,200Aug 6, 2005Natural
Erickson Spring Fire2,700Aug 22, 2005Natural

Every fire of 2005 Montana fire history

Nearby

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.