Lewis Wfu Fire
The Lewis Wfu Fire burned 1,243 acres in Idaho, in 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to August 7, 2006.
- Size
- 1,243 acres
- Ignition
- August 7, 2006
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,243 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.043, -114.924.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,243 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,444 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 7, 2006
- State
- Idaho
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDPAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4504311492420060807
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Note on the perimeter
- FireStat LOCAL_FIRE_NUMBER is 816
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 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crystal Fire | 220,042 | Aug 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Sailor Cap Fire | 61,929 | Aug 23, 2006 | Human |
| Cherry Fire | 54,350 | Aug 10, 2006 | Natural |
| Rattlesnake Complex | 43,600 | Aug 20, 2006 | Natural |
| Red Mountain Fire | 35,482 | Aug 14, 2006 | Human |
| Middle Fork Complex | 35,122 | Aug 7, 2006 | Natural |
| Black Butte Fire | 33,380 | ||
| Heavens Gate Complex (Black Butte) Fire | 33,000 | Aug 22, 2006 | Natural |
| Stone 2 Fire | 31,568 | Aug 5, 2006 | Natural |
| Southfork Complex (Cougar) Fire | 28,431 | Aug 7, 2006 | Natural |
| Owinza Fire | 26,622 | Aug 7, 2006 | Natural |
| Bowen Fire | 19,482 |
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. 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.