Freezeout Ridge Fire
The Freezeout Ridge Fire was reported on September 5, 2014 in Idaho County, Idaho and burned 3,624 acres. It was declared out on October 31, 2014.
- Size
- 3,624 acres
- Contained
- 0%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2014
- Personnel
- 24
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 45.272, -116.600.
The incident
- Size
- 3,624 acres
- Containment
- 0%
- Discovered
- September 5, 2014 at 11:02 PM PDT
- Contained
- September 30, 2014 at 10:00 AM PDT
- Controlled
- October 15, 2014 at 10:00 AM PDT
- Declared out
- October 31, 2014 at 7:00 AM PDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Idaho County
- State
- Idaho
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 24
- Estimated cost to date
- $2,915,242
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2014-ORWWF-001151
- IRWIN identifier
- 0DC916E9-ADE4-4D23-8D55-7B5085A841D2
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 27, from September 8, 2014 to October 27, 2014. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 2
- Injuries
- 2
- Most personnel assigned
- 146 on September 22, 2014
- Most aircraft assigned
- 6
- Cost reported by the teams
- $2.9 million, in 2014 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 716 acres, on September 14, 2014.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 8, 2014 | 212 | |
| Sep 9, 2014 | 250 | +38 |
| Sep 10, 2014 | 250 | 0 |
| Sep 12, 2014 | 250 | |
| Sep 13, 2014 | 482 | +232 |
| Sep 14, 2014 | 1,198 | +716 |
| Sep 15, 2014 | 1,198 | 0 |
| Sep 17, 2014 | 2,780 | |
| Sep 18, 2014 | 2,780 | 0 |
| Sep 19, 2014 | 3,482 | +702 |
| Sep 20, 2014 | 3,525 | +43 |
| Sep 21, 2014 | 3,545 | +20 |
| Sep 22, 2014 | 3,558 | +13 |
| Sep 23, 2014 | 3,570 | +12 |
| Sep 24, 2014 | 3,582 | +12 |
| Sep 25, 2014 | 3,624 | +42 |
| Sep 26, 2014 | 3,624 | 0 |
| Sep 27, 2014 | 3,624 | 0 |
| Sep 28, 2014 | 3,624 | 0 |
| Sep 29, 2014 | 3,624 | 0 |
| Oct 2, 2014 | 3,624 | |
| Oct 27, 2014 | 3,624 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Joseph, OR covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated October 31, 2014 at 9:10 AM PDT. Identifier 2014-ORWWF-001151.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.