Race Horse Gulch Fire
The Race Horse Gulch Fire was reported on August 5, 2016 in Sanders County, Montana and burned 4,580 acres. It was declared out on September 14, 2016. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 4,580 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 5, 2016
- Personnel
- 6
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 47.356, -114.474.
The incident
- Size
- 4,580 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 5, 2016 at 7:10 PM MDT
- Contained
- August 24, 2016 at 8:23 AM MDT
- Controlled
- September 14, 2016 at 2:00 PM MDT
- Declared out
- September 14, 2016 at 2:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- TYPE 4
- County
- Sanders County
- State
- Montana
- Nearest city reported
- PERMA
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- Tribal
- Personnel assigned
- 6
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $989,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-MTFHA-000120
- IRWIN identifier
- AD5FE444-16A2-47B9-9CAB-23609C5AC072
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 19, from August 6, 2016 to August 24, 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.
- Most personnel assigned
- 144 on August 10, 2016
- Cost reported by the teams
- $989,000, in 2016 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 3,616 acres, on August 7, 2016.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 6, 2016 | 400 | |
| Aug 7, 2016 | 4,016 | +3,616 |
| Aug 8, 2016 | 4,571 | +555 |
| Aug 9, 2016 | 4,571 | 0 |
| Aug 10, 2016 | 4,580 | +9 |
| Aug 11, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 12, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 13, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 14, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 15, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 16, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 17, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 18, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 19, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 20, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 21, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 22, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 23, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
| Aug 24, 2016 | 4,580 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Saint Ignatius, MT 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 September 14, 2016 at 3:19 PM MDT. Identifier 2016-MTFHA-000120.
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.