Falls Creek Fire
The Falls Creek Fire burned 1,445 acres in Lemhi County, Idaho, in 2005. It was discovered on July 19, 2005, and contained on August 7, 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to July 18, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,445 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2005
- Contained
- August 7, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,350 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.622, -113.746.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,445 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,350 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,457 acres
- Discovered
- July 19, 2005, 4:47 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 18, 2005
- Contained
- August 7, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Lemhi County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Salmon-Challis National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDSCF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4463411369720050718
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1430249
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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
| 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.