East Star Lake Fire
The East Star Lake Fire burned 7,284 acres in Lincoln County, Idaho, in 2005. It was discovered on August 1, 2005, and contained on August 4, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural. Incident teams reported 1 structure destroyed.
- Size
- 7,284 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2005
- Contained
- August 4, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
- Structures destroyed
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,376 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.776, -114.158.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,284 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,376 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,274 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2005, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 4, 2005, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Lincoln County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Twin Falls District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- IDTFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-IDSHD-000843
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4276711415620050801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-503902
- Note on the perimeter
- Original 08/02 GPS poly modified with 08/02/05 GPS arc detailing an escape
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from August 1, 2005 to August 7, 2005. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 1 (1 commercial)
- Most personnel assigned
- 106 on August 2, 2005
- Most aircraft assigned
- 3
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 5,800 acres, on August 2, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 2005 | 1,200 | |
| Aug 2, 2005 | 7,000 | +5,800 |
| Aug 3, 2005 | 7,284 | +284 |
| Aug 7, 2005 | 7,284 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clover Fire | 192,846 | Jul 15, 2005 | Natural |
| Rupert Fire | 47,592 | Jul 22, 2005 | Natural |
| Valley Road Fire | 40,483 | Sep 3, 2005 | Human |
| Granite Complex | 36,800 | Aug 6, 2005 | Natural |
| Snake One Fire | 25,280 | Jul 28, 2005 | Natural |
| Laidlaw Butte Fire | 24,810 | Aug 10, 2005 | Human |
| Nine Shot Wfu Fire | 20,400 | Aug 26, 2005 | Natural |
| Round Butte Fire | 16,892 | Sep 16, 2005 | Human |
| Frank Church Wfu (West Fork and Joe) Fire | 13,866 | Aug 10, 2005 | Natural |
| Fort Hall Complex | 10,630 | Sep 4, 2005 | Human |
| Running Lake Fire | 10,307 | ||
| Brown Dune Fire | 9,133 | Jun 14, 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.