Harris Complex (Cottonwood) Fire
The Harris Complex (Cottonwood) Fire burned 887 acres in Boise County, Idaho, in 2010. It was discovered on August 26, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 887 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,009 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.824, -116.115.
The record
- Reported final size
- 887 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,009 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 887 acres
- Discovered
- August 26, 2010, 8:45 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Boise County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Southwest Supervisory Area Office
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDPRI
- Part of
- Harris Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4382511611220100826
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2010IDDL6102010099
- Note on the perimeter
- Not in FireStat. Got tabular from MTBS. May be Coulter Summit, Man, and Holbrook fires in Firestat?
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 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Long Butte Fire | 306,113 | Aug 21, 2010 | Natural |
| Jefferson Fire | 108,855 | Jul 13, 2010 | Human |
| Crowbar Fire | 29,508 | Aug 5, 2010 | Natural |
| Black Butte Fire | 16,126 | Jun 29, 2010 | Natural |
| Middle Butte Fire | 14,058 | Aug 27, 2010 | Human |
| Mule Creek Fire | 13,745 | Aug 20, 2010 | Human |
| Rooster Rock Fire | 12,474 | Aug 5, 2010 | Natural |
| Big Draw Fire | 12,389 | Aug 6, 2010 | Natural |
| Sailor Creek Fire | 9,837 | Jun 29, 2010 | Natural |
| Bear Trap Fire | 7,261 | Aug 6, 2010 | Natural |
| Bowen Fire | 6,663 | Aug 21, 2010 | Human |
| Laid Law Fire | 5,559 | Aug 5, 2010 | 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.