Middle Butte Fire
The Middle Butte Fire burned 14,058 acres in Bingham County, Idaho, in 2010. It was discovered on August 27, 2010, and contained on August 29, 2010. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 14,058 acres
- Discovered
- August 27, 2010
- Contained
- August 29, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,413 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.449, -112.787.
The record
- Reported final size
- 14,058 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 9,413 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 7,578 acres
- Discovered
- August 27, 2010, 1:27 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 29, 2010, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Bingham County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Idaho Falls District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- IDIFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2010-IDIFD-010027
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4349311269920100827
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-614010
- Perimeter map method
- Remote Sensing Derived
- Note on the perimeter
- GeoEye 3.2m Imagery NIR,Blue, Green composite; digitized at 1:24000 to 1:5000 scale
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 |
| 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 |
| Hot Tea Fire | 5,409 | Aug 27, 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.