Granite Complex
The Granite Complex burned 36,800 acres in Idaho, in 2005. It was discovered on August 6, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 36,800 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 2005
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 37,301 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.363, -116.666.
The record
- Reported final size
- 36,800 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 37,301 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 37,845 acres
- Discovered
- August 6, 2005, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDNCF
- Part of
- Granite Wfu Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2005-ORWWF-000161
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4539911656820050806
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1426988
- Perimeter records
- 3 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Includes local #s 161, 165, 268, 270
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 |
| 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 |
| Burnt Strip Mountain Fire | 8,580 | Aug 9, 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.