Raven Fire
The Raven Fire burned 27,898 acres in Montana, in 2010. It was discovered on August 21, 2010, and contained on August 30, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 27,898 acres
- Discovered
- August 21, 2010
- Contained
- August 30, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 26,643 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.552, -108.169.
The record
- Reported final size
- 27,898 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 26,643 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 27,699 acres
- Discovered
- August 21, 2010, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 30, 2010, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- MTNRC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4755610822320100821
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2010MTCMRFSR2
- Note on the perimeter
- Corrected GPS coordinates 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stump Gulch Fire | 9,870 | Aug 21, 2010 | Human |
| Davis Fire | 2,015 | Aug 26, 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
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.