Wildfires of 2007

Bitterroot Fire Use Complex (Magruder Mtn 1) Fire

2007Idaho County, IdahoWildland fire use

The Bitterroot Fire Use Complex (Magruder Mtn 1) Fire burned 6,233 acres in Idaho County, Idaho, in 2007. It was discovered on July 14, 2007, and contained on October 26, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to July 6, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
6,233 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2007
Contained
October 26, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 25,030 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.517, -114.884.

The record

Reported final size
6,233 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
25,030 acres
Discovered
July 14, 2007, 10:30 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
July 6, 2007
Contained
October 26, 2007, 12:07 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Idaho
County
Idaho County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Bitterroot National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Part of
Bitterroot Fire Use Complex
Other fire reports inside the burned area
El Capitan West, Magruder Mtn #1, Elkhorn Ridge, Patsy Anne, South Saddle Gulch, Harrington Mtn, Snake Creek
Incident type
Wildland fire use
MTBS fire identifier
ID4568011472320070706
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1456365

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

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Sources

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.