Black Cat Fire
The Black Cat Fire burned 10,766 acres in Missoula County, Montana, in 2007. It was discovered on August 14, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 10,766 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,656 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.020, -114.151.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,766 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,656 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 11,736 acres
- Discovered
- August 14, 2007
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Montana
- County
- Missoula County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Southwestern Land Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4703511414720070814
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MT0286-446
- Note on the perimeter
- fire started on pvt land and spread to lolo nf (not in FIRESTAT)
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 Montana in 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chippy Creek Fire | 99,090 | Jul 31, 2007 | |
| Fool Creek Fire | 60,038 | Jul 4, 2007 | Natural |
| Ahorn Fire | 52,505 | Jul 11, 2007 | Natural |
| Meriwether Fire | 46,298 | Jul 21, 2007 | Natural |
| Skyland Fire | 44,176 | Jul 23, 2007 | Natural |
| Jocko Lakes Fire | 36,388 | Aug 3, 2007 | Natural |
| Sawmill Complex (Wyman 2) Fire | 36,045 | Jul 29, 2007 | Natural |
| Brush Creek Fire | 29,921 | Jul 27, 2007 | Natural |
| Rombo Mountain Fire | 29,062 | Jul 31, 2007 | Natural |
| Wh Complex (Wicked Creek) Fire | 26,600 | Aug 9, 2007 | Natural |
| Rat Creek Fire | 25,877 | Aug 9, 2007 | Natural |
| Conger Creek Fire | 25,150 | Jul 16, 2007 | Natural |
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.