Rehberg Assist Fire
The Rehberg Assist Fire burned 1,120 acres in Yellowstone County, Montana, in 2008. It was discovered on July 1, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to July 4, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,120 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,196 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.835, -108.600.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,120 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,196 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2008
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 4, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Yellowstone County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Southern Land Office
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4584310859820080704
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MT0419-193
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: 4, from July 4, 2008 to July 6, 2008. 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.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 8
- Most personnel assigned
- 42 on July 5, 2008
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Cost reported by the teams
- $35,000, in 2008 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 20 acres, on July 5, 2008.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 4, 2008 | 1,100 | |
| Jul 5, 2008 | 1,120 | +20 |
| Jul 6, 2008 | 1,120 | 0 |
Other large fires in Montana in 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunn Mtn. Assist Fire | 102,380 | Aug 22, 2008 | Natural |
| Cascade Fire | 10,173 | Jul 26, 2008 | Human |
| Chouteau Co Complex | 5,519 | Mar 24, 2008 | Human |
| Easter Fire | 5,064 | Mar 24, 2008 | Human |
| Kathryn Fire | 5,000 | Aug 25, 2008 | Human |
| Knowlton Complex (Drga) Fire | 4,261 | Aug 22, 2008 | Natural |
| Golden Valley Complex | 3,558 | Aug 30, 2008 | Natural |
| Magee 2 Fire | 3,000 | Apr 9, 2008 | Human |
| Deep Draw Fire | 2,022 | Aug 9, 2008 | Natural |
| East Unit Charlie Fire | 1,909 | Apr 1, 2008 | |
| WoodHumpSalmon Fire | 1,584 | ||
| Coffee Fire | 1,528 |
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. 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.