Wildfires of 2007

Arkansas Fire

2007Bannock County, IdahoWildfire

The Arkansas Fire burned 1,496 acres in Bannock County, Idaho, in 2007. It was discovered on July 16, 2007, and contained on July 19, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,496 acres
Discovered
July 16, 2007
Contained
July 19, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,537 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.535, -112.138.

The record

Reported final size
1,496 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,537 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,496 acres
Discovered
July 16, 2007, 5:19 p.m. local time
Contained
July 19, 2007, 9:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Bannock County
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Land Management
Reporting unit
Idaho Falls District
Agency
Bureau of Land Management
Unit
IDIFD
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2007-IDPOD-007015
MTBS fire identifier
ID4254311213920070716
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
W-545079
Perimeter map method
GPS-Flight

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 200712

FireAcresStartCause
Murphy Complex367,785Jul 21, 2007Natural
Rowland Fire217,512
Cascade Complex (Monumental) Fire174,231Jul 17, 2007Natural
East Zone Complex (Raines) Fire120,077Jul 14, 2007Natural
Rattlesnake Fire102,000Jul 13, 2007Natural
Raines Fire78,587
Black Pine 2 Fire72,361Jul 6, 2007Natural
Shower Bath Complex (Red Bluff) Fire62,591Jul 17, 2007Natural
Shower Bath Complex (Shower Bath) Fire60,009Aug 1, 2007Natural
Poe Cabin Fire58,520Jul 18, 2007Natural
Riordon Fire54,081
Chimney Complex51,000Jul 13, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 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.