HWY46 MM123 Fire
The HWY46 MM123 Fire burned 3,462 acres in Gooding County, Idaho, in 2013. It was discovered on September 11, 2013, and contained on September 15, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 3,462 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 2013
- Contained
- September 15, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,205 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.087, -114.681.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,462 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,205 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,459 acres
- Discovered
- September 11, 2013, 2:21 p.m. local time
- Contained
- September 15, 2013, 1:15 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Gooding County
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Land Management
- Reporting unit
- Twin Falls District
- Agency
- Bureau of Land Management
- Unit
- IDTFD
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-IDSHD-000478
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4308711468320130911
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-661057
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized-Topo
- Note on the perimeter
- Digitized from iPad screen Shot. FIRECODE firecode = HY7X
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 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pony Complex | 135,231 | Aug 8, 2013 | Natural |
| Elk Complex | 129,730 | Aug 8, 2013 | Natural |
| Beaver Creek Fire | 111,497 | Aug 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Little Queens Fire | 23,406 | Aug 17, 2013 | Human |
| Mccan Fire | 23,389 | Aug 7, 2013 | Natural |
| Lodgepole Fire | 22,825 | Jul 20, 2013 | Natural |
| Raft Fire | 20,395 | Aug 29, 2013 | Natural |
| Kelley Fire | 17,349 | Aug 24, 2013 | Natural |
| Jim Brown Fire | 14,404 | Jul 1, 2013 | Natural |
| Thunder City Fire | 13,263 | Jul 19, 2013 | Natural |
| Southeast Red Bridge Fire | 9,499 | Jul 31, 2013 | Natural |
| Papoose Fire | 9,493 | Jul 8, 2013 | 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.