Chippy Creek Fire
The Chippy Creek Fire burned 99,090 acres in Sanders County, Montana, in 2007. It was discovered on July 31, 2007.
- Size
- 99,090 acres
- Discovered
- July 31, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 95,636 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.808, -114.997.
The record
- Reported final size
- 99,090 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 95,636 acres
- Discovered
- July 31, 2007, 1:56 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Montana
- County
- Sanders County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Northwestern Land Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4780711483420070731
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2007_MT-NWS-431
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Railley Mountain Fire | 21,585 | Jul 21, 2007 | Natural |
Nearby
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.