Little Beaver Complex
The Little Beaver Complex burned 1,870 acres in Valley County, Idaho, in 2010. It was discovered on July 28, 2010, and contained on October 24, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,870 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2010
- Contained
- October 24, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,996 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.445, -115.525.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,870 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,996 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,705 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2010, 2:37 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 24, 2010, 7:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Valley County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Boise National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDBOF
- Part of
- Little Beaver Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4445511550420100728
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1487101
- Note on the perimeter
- Incomplete FireSTAT records so could not verify data. Little Beaver, Bernard Mtn and Bernard Lake fires in Little Beaver Complex. BOF and SNF lands
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.