Sawmill Complex (Wyman 2) Fire
The Sawmill Complex (Wyman 2) Fire burned 36,045 acres in Granite County, Montana, in 2007. It was discovered on July 29, 2007, and contained on November 1, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to July 13, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 36,045 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2007
- Contained
- November 1, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 68,250 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.347, -113.743.
The record
- Reported final size
- 36,045 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 68,250 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 35,520 acres
- Discovered
- July 29, 2007, 11:08 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 13, 2007
- Contained
- November 1, 2007, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Granite County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Lolo National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Part of
- Sawmill Complex
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Fisher Point, Sawmill
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4648111367820070713
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1457570
- Perimeter map method
- Other
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- NIFMID_LNK 1457570
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 |
| 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
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.