Damnation Fire
The Damnation Fire burned 8,246 acres in Flathead County, Montana, in 2013. It was discovered on August 12, 2013, and contained on November 5, 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to August 11, 2013. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 8,246 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2013
- Contained
- November 5, 2013
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,306 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.675, -113.333.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,246 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,306 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,245 acres
- Discovered
- August 12, 2013, 3:43 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 11, 2013
- Contained
- November 5, 2013, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Montana
- County
- Flathead County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Flathead National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MT4767511333320130811
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1519115
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
- Note on the perimeter
- HANDDRAWN FROM AIRCRAFT
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 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold Pan Complex | 41,763 | Jul 16, 2013 | Natural |
| Red Shale Fire | 12,379 | Jul 18, 2013 | Natural |
| Miner Paradise Complex | 10,850 | Jul 21, 2013 | Natural |
| Eureka Fire | 6,768 | Aug 12, 2013 | Natural |
| West Mullan Fire | 6,282 | Jul 14, 2013 | Human |
| West Fork 2 Fire | 6,000 | Aug 18, 2013 | Natural |
| Schoolhouse Fire | 4,902 | Aug 18, 2013 | Natural |
| Moose Meadows Fire | 3,500 | Jul 25, 2013 | Natural |
| Winter Fire | 2,756 | Jan 8, 2013 | Human |
| Firestone Fire | 1,570 | Jul 27, 2013 | Human |
| Peoples Creek Fire | 1,538 | Nov 19, 2013 | Human |
| NezPeak Fire | 1,341 |
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.