Wildfires of 2006

Unnamed Fire

2006Idaho County, IdahoOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,893 acres in Idaho County, Idaho, in 2006. It was discovered on August 8, 2006, and contained on October 24, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to August 14, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,893 acres
Discovered
August 8, 2006
Contained
October 24, 2006
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,917 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.619, -114.719.

The record

Reported final size
1,893 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,917 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,894 acres
Discovered
August 8, 2006, 8:30 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
August 14, 2006
Contained
October 24, 2006, 8:07 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Idaho County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Bitterroot National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
ID4564811472720060814
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1443009

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

FireAcresStartCause
Crystal Fire220,042Aug 15, 2006Natural
Sailor Cap Fire61,929Aug 23, 2006Human
Cherry Fire54,350Aug 10, 2006Natural
Rattlesnake Complex43,600Aug 20, 2006Natural
Red Mountain Fire35,482Aug 14, 2006Human
Middle Fork Complex35,122Aug 7, 2006Natural
Black Butte Fire33,380
Heavens Gate Complex (Black Butte) Fire33,000Aug 22, 2006Natural
Stone 2 Fire31,568Aug 5, 2006Natural
Southfork Complex (Cougar) Fire28,431Aug 7, 2006Natural
Owinza Fire26,622Aug 7, 2006Natural
Bowen Fire19,482

Every fire of 2006 Idaho fire history

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.