Little Queens Fire
The Little Queens Fire burned 23,406 acres in Elmore County, Idaho, in 2013. It was discovered on August 17, 2013, and contained on November 18, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 23,406 acres
- Discovered
- August 17, 2013
- Contained
- November 18, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 27,541 acres. Point of origin as reported, 43.887, -115.179.
The record
- Reported final size
- 23,406 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 27,541 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 23,290 acres
- Discovered
- August 17, 2013, 2:28 p.m. local time
- Contained
- November 18, 2013, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Idaho
- County
- Elmore County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Sawtooth National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- IDSTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- ID4388711518020130817
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1516455
- Perimeter map method
- Infrared Interpretation
- Note on the perimeter
- Undetermined caused fire in Sawtooth Wilderness, delay in detection due to other fires heavey drift smoke, Little Queens extream fire behavior, very rapid fire growth,burned entire drainage in 24hrs, and threatened Atlanta Idaho.
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 |
| 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 |
| Hells Canyon Fire | 9,062 | Aug 29, 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.