Davis Fire
The Davis Fire burned 2,015 acres in Lewis and Clark County, Montana, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010, and contained on September 10, 2010. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,015 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Contained
- September 10, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,860 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.866, -112.476.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,015 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,860 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,176 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 1:25 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 10, 2010, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Montana
- County
- Lewis and Clark County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Helena - Lewis and Clark National Forest
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4687511246820100826
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1491002
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- 1:24,000 scale map or equivalent precision
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 20105
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raven Fire | 27,898 | Aug 21, 2010 | Natural |
| Stump Gulch Fire | 9,870 | Aug 21, 2010 | Human |
| South Fork 3 Bar Fire | 1,465 | Nov 2, 2010 | Human |
| East Bowdoin Su E F Fire | 1,240 | Apr 2, 2010 | |
| Homestead Fire | 485 | Mar 29, 2010 | Human |
Nearby
- Lincoln, MT12 miles northwest of the fire
- Helena Valley Northwest, MT22 miles southeast of the fire
- Helena Valley West Central, MT24 miles southeast of the fire
- Helena West Side, MT25 miles southeast of the fire
- Helena Valley Northeast, MT27 miles southeast of the fire
- Helena, MT28 miles southeast of the fire
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.