Mountain View Fire
The Mountain View Fire was reported on August 28, 2019 in Yellowstone County, Montana and burned 2,775 acres. It was fully contained on September 3, 2019.
- Size
- 2,775 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 28, 2019
- Personnel
- 95
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 45.796, -108.800.
The incident
- Size
- 2,775 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 28, 2019 at 12:01 PM MDT
- Contained
- September 3, 2019 at 1:00 PM MDT
- Cause
- Unknown
- Location
- 13 miles West of downtown Billings MT; 8 miles north of Laurel
- County
- Yellowstone County
- State
- Montana
- Protecting agency
- C&L
- Jurisdiction
- DNRC
- Personnel assigned
- 95
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1,000,020
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-MTLG03-190460
- IRWIN identifier
- CF804C57-79D3-404B-AA5E-EDF25120CA92
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Laurel, MT covers the area today.
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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 4, 2019 at 3:48 PM MDT. Identifier 2019-MTLG03-190460.