Pioneer Fire
The Pioneer Fire was reported on July 18, 2016 in Boise County, Idaho and burned 188,404 acres. It was declared out on January 24, 2017. Incident teams reported 6 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 188,404 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 18, 2016
- Personnel
- 208
- Structures destroyed
- 6
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 43.950, -115.762.
The incident
- Size
- 188,404 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 18, 2016 at 5:09 PM MDT
- Contained
- November 3, 2016 at 2:30 PM MDT
- Declared out
- January 24, 2017 at 8:00 AM MST
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Boise County
- State
- Idaho
- Nearest city reported
- IDAHO CITY
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 208
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $90,000,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-IDBOF-000539
- IRWIN identifier
- 646895B1-D65E-4797-8D03-CF9D06D9826D
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 81, from July 19, 2016 to November 3, 2016. 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.
- Structures destroyed
- 6 (2 residences, 4 other)
- Structures damaged
- 4
- Most structures threatened at once
- 450
- Injuries
- 42
- Most personnel assigned
- 600 on August 23, 2016
- Most aircraft assigned
- 12
- People evacuated, at the most
- 576
- Cost reported by the teams
- $90 million, in 2016 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 29,176 acres, on August 30, 2016.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 19, 2016 | 350 | |
| Jul 20, 2016 | 620 | +270 |
| Jul 21, 2016 | 1,300 | +680 |
| Jul 22, 2016 | 2,906 | +1,606 |
| Jul 23, 2016 | 3,528 | +622 |
| Jul 24, 2016 | 3,725 | +197 |
| Jul 25, 2016 | 4,602 | +877 |
| Jul 26, 2016 | 4,982 | +380 |
| Jul 27, 2016 | 10,084 | +5,102 |
| Jul 28, 2016 | 12,869 | +2,785 |
| Jul 29, 2016 | 16,204 | +3,335 |
| Jul 30, 2016 | 18,933 | +2,729 |
| Jul 31, 2016 | 27,417 | +8,484 |
| Aug 1, 2016 | 38,072 | +10,655 |
| Aug 2, 2016 | 42,051 | +3,979 |
| Aug 3, 2016 | 48,350 | +6,299 |
| Aug 4, 2016 | 50,478 | +2,128 |
| Aug 5, 2016 | 51,903 | +1,425 |
| Aug 6, 2016 | 58,136 | +6,233 |
| Aug 7, 2016 | 60,882 | +2,746 |
| Aug 8, 2016 | 63,362 | +2,480 |
| Aug 9, 2016 | 64,351 | +989 |
| Aug 10, 2016 | 64,786 | +435 |
| Aug 11, 2016 | 65,285 | +499 |
| Aug 12, 2016 | 66,884 | +1,599 |
| Aug 13, 2016 | 68,893 | +2,009 |
| Aug 14, 2016 | 71,190 | +2,297 |
| Aug 15, 2016 | 73,358 | +2,168 |
| Aug 16, 2016 | 76,980 | +3,622 |
| Aug 17, 2016 | 80,370 | +3,390 |
| Aug 18, 2016 | 81,450 | +1,080 |
| Aug 19, 2016 | 86,030 | +4,580 |
| Aug 20, 2016 | 87,818 | +1,788 |
| Aug 21, 2016 | 88,755 | +937 |
| Aug 22, 2016 | 96,469 | +7,714 |
| Aug 23, 2016 | 100,367 | +3,898 |
| Aug 24, 2016 | 101,922 | +1,555 |
| Aug 25, 2016 | 102,746 | +824 |
| Aug 26, 2016 | 104,263 | +1,517 |
| Aug 27, 2016 | 105,475 | +1,212 |
| Aug 28, 2016 | 109,594 | +4,119 |
| Aug 29, 2016 | 111,604 | +2,010 |
| Aug 30, 2016 | 140,780 | +29,176 |
| Aug 31, 2016 | 157,393 | +16,613 |
| Sep 1, 2016 | 164,895 | +7,502 |
| Sep 2, 2016 | 179,977 | +15,082 |
| Sep 3, 2016 | 180,300 | +323 |
| Sep 4, 2016 | 181,065 | +765 |
| Sep 5, 2016 | 181,145 | +80 |
| Sep 6, 2016 | 181,174 | +29 |
| Sep 7, 2016 | 181,297 | +123 |
| Sep 8, 2016 | 181,574 | +277 |
| Sep 9, 2016 | 182,445 | +871 |
| Sep 10, 2016 | 183,508 | +1,063 |
| Sep 11, 2016 | 184,376 | +868 |
| Sep 12, 2016 | 185,895 | +1,519 |
| Sep 13, 2016 | 186,192 | +297 |
| Sep 14, 2016 | 186,361 | +169 |
| Sep 15, 2016 | 188,312 | +1,951 |
| Sep 16, 2016 | 188,380 | +68 |
| Sep 17, 2016 | 188,397 | +17 |
| Sep 18, 2016 | 188,397 | 0 |
| Sep 19, 2016 | 188,404 | +7 |
| Sep 20, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 21, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 22, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 23, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 24, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 25, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 26, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 27, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 28, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Sep 29, 2016 | 188,404 | 0 |
| Oct 6, 2016 | 188,404 | |
| Oct 13, 2016 | 188,404 | |
| Oct 20, 2016 | 188,404 | |
| Oct 27, 2016 | 188,404 | |
| Nov 3, 2016 | 188,404 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Idaho City, ID covers the area today.
Nearby
- Idaho City, ID9 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Hidden Spring, ID29 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Boise, ID32 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Garden City, ID33 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Eagle, ID34 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Eagle Foothills, ID34 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
Idaho wildfires today Wildfires of 2016 All current fires
Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated March 6, 2017 at 11:00 AM MST. Identifier 2016-IDBOF-000539.
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.