Surprise Creek Fire
The Surprise Creek Fire was reported on July 27, 2018 in Shoshone County, Idaho and burned 3,840 acres. It was declared out on December 11, 2018. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 3,840 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 27, 2018
- Personnel
- 4
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 47.924, -116.325.
The incident
- Size
- 3,840 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 27, 2018 at 7:11 PM PDT
- Contained
- October 9, 2018 at 8:30 AM PDT
- Controlled
- October 9, 2018 at 9:00 AM PDT
- Declared out
- December 11, 2018 at 12:45 PM PST
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- South of Faset Peak in the Independence drainage and south of FS road 332
- County
- Shoshone County
- State
- Idaho
- Nearest city reported
- Hayden
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 4
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $3,340,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2018-IDIPF-000357
- IRWIN identifier
- 19B2FC0F-0B40-406A-BC5E-A8B09869532D
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Clark Fork, ID covers the area today.
Nearby
- Clark Fork, ID17 miles northeast of the fire’s origin
- Hayden, ID24 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Dalton Gardens, ID25 miles southwest of the fire’s origin
- Spirit Lake, ID25 miles west of the fire’s origin
- Sandpoint, ID27 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Pinehurst, ID27 miles south of the fire’s origin
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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 January 31, 2019 at 2:48 PM PST. Identifier 2018-IDIPF-000357.