Wildfires of 2005

Gregory Fire

2005Boise County, IdahoWildfire

The Gregory Fire burned 1,132 acres in Boise County, Idaho, in 2005. It was discovered on September 3, 2005, and contained on September 10, 2005. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,132 acres
Discovered
September 3, 2005
Contained
September 10, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,201 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.821, -115.896.

The record

Reported final size
1,132 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,201 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,132 acres
Discovered
September 3, 2005, 1:11 p.m. local time
Contained
September 10, 2005, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Idaho
County
Boise County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Boise National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
IDBOF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2005-IDBOF-000099
MTBS fire identifier
ID4381811588520050903
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1427596

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
Clover Fire192,846Jul 15, 2005Natural
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

Every fire of 2005 Idaho fire history

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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.