Wildfires of 2005

Clover Fire

2005Owyhee County, IdahoWildfire

The Clover Fire burned 192,846 acres in Owyhee County, Idaho, in 2005. It was discovered on July 15, 2005, and contained on July 20, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
192,846 acres
Discovered
July 15, 2005
Contained
July 20, 2005
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 198,974 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.629, -115.506.

The record

Reported final size
192,846 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
198,974 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
192,792 acres
Discovered
July 15, 2005, 6:30 p.m. local time
Contained
July 20, 2005, 7:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Owyhee County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Twin Falls District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
IDTFD
Other fire reports inside the burned area
Indianrdge, 20 Mile
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2005-IDJRD-000758
MTBS fire identifier
ID4263011521720050715
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-502411

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 Idaho in 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Rupert Fire47,592Jul 22, 2005Natural
Valley Road Fire40,483Sep 3, 2005Human
Granite Complex36,800Aug 6, 2005Natural
Snake One Fire25,280Jul 28, 2005Natural
Laidlaw Butte Fire24,810Aug 10, 2005Human
Nine Shot Wfu Fire20,400Aug 26, 2005Natural
Round Butte Fire16,892Sep 16, 2005Human
Frank Church Wfu (West Fork and Joe) Fire13,866Aug 10, 2005Natural
Fort Hall Complex10,630Sep 4, 2005Human
Running Lake Fire10,307
Brown Dune Fire9,133Jun 14, 2005Natural
Burnt Strip Mountain Fire8,580Aug 9, 2005Natural

Every fire of 2005 Idaho fire history

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.