Nugget Fire
The Nugget Fire burned 1,534 acres in Shoshone County, Idaho, in 2009. It was discovered on September 26, 2009, and contained on December 9, 2009. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,534 acres
- Discovered
- September 26, 2009
- Contained
- December 9, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,141 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.193, -115.596.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,534 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,141 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,515 acres
- Discovered
- September 26, 2009, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 9, 2009, 11:30 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Shoshone County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Idaho Panhandle National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4717211560520090926
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1484025
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 Idaho in 20096
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Power Station Fire | 3,026 | Sep 27, 2009 | Human |
| Eightmile Creek Fire | 1,264 | Jul 12, 2009 | Natural |
| Sand Hallow Fire | 1,262 | Aug 26, 2009 | Human |
| West End Fire | 1,252 | Oct 11, 2009 | Human |
| Slide Fire | 1,150 | Sep 3, 2009 | Natural |
| Highway 46 Fire | 1,104 | Sep 19, 2009 | Human |
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.