Wood Creek Fire
The Wood Creek Fire burned 2,309 acres in Elmore County, Idaho, in 2007. It was discovered on July 18, 2007, and contained on July 21, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to July 17, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,309 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2007
- Contained
- July 21, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,321 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.523, -115.865.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,309 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,321 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,310 acres
- Discovered
- July 18, 2007, 10:25 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 17, 2007
- Contained
- July 21, 2007, 7:56 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Elmore County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Boise National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- IDBOF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-IDFRD-000629
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4351811585420070717
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1451593
- Perimeter map method
- GPS-Flight
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Perimeter from GeoMAC
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 6, from July 18, 2007 to July 22, 2007. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Injuries
- 1
- Most personnel assigned
- 42 on July 20, 2007
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 400 acres, on July 22, 2007.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2007 | 1,900 | |
| Jul 19, 2007 | 1,900 | 0 |
| Jul 20, 2007 | 1,900 | 0 |
| Jul 21, 2007 | 1,900 | 0 |
| Jul 22, 2007 | 2,300 | +400 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murphy Complex | 367,785 | Jul 21, 2007 | Natural |
| Rowland Fire | 217,512 | ||
| Cascade Complex (Monumental) Fire | 174,231 | Jul 17, 2007 | Natural |
| East Zone Complex (Raines) Fire | 120,077 | Jul 14, 2007 | Natural |
| Rattlesnake Fire | 102,000 | Jul 13, 2007 | Natural |
| Raines Fire | 78,587 | ||
| Black Pine 2 Fire | 72,361 | Jul 6, 2007 | Natural |
| Shower Bath Complex (Red Bluff) Fire | 62,591 | Jul 17, 2007 | Natural |
| Shower Bath Complex (Shower Bath) Fire | 60,009 | Aug 1, 2007 | Natural |
| Poe Cabin Fire | 58,520 | Jul 18, 2007 | Natural |
| Riordon Fire | 54,081 | ||
| Chimney Complex | 51,000 | Jul 13, 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.