Acorn Flats Fire
The Acorn Flats Fire was reported on August 6, 2020 in Rosebud County, Montana and burned 5,368 acres. It was declared out on August 20, 2020. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 5,368 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 6, 2020
Map
Perimeter mapped March 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM MDT, 5,368 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 46.751, -107.033.
The incident
- Size
- 5,368 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 6, 2020 at 9:55 PM MDT
- Contained
- August 7, 2020 at 1:49 PM MDT
- Controlled
- August 7, 2020 at 3:35 PM MDT
- Declared out
- August 20, 2020 at 8:00 AM MDT
- Cause
- Natural, Lightning
- Location
- 36 Miles Northeast of Forsyth, MT
- County
- Rosebud County
- State
- Montana
- Protecting agency
- C&L
- Jurisdiction
- C&L
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Estimated cost to date
- $25,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-MTLG29-000227
- IRWIN identifier
- DD1C3D45-027F-4581-BBE2-8D4307CBB03B
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 1. 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.
- Cost reported by the teams
- $25,000, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Hysham, 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, 2020 at 8:16 AM MDT. Identifier 2020-MTLG29-000227.
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.