Grouse Fire
The Grouse Fire was reported on September 6, 2020 in Elmore County, Idaho and burned 3,998 acres. It was declared out on November 16, 2020. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 3,998 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 6, 2020
- Personnel
- 13
Map
Perimeter mapped March 14, 2023 at 9:13 AM MDT, 3,998 acres (mixed methods). Point of origin 43.540, -115.175.
The incident
- Size
- 3,998 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- September 6, 2020 at 7:23 PM MDT
- Contained
- October 29, 2020 at 11:00 AM MDT
- Controlled
- November 16, 2020 at 8:37 AM MST
- Declared out
- November 16, 2020 at 8:37 AM MST
- Cause
- Human, Other Human Cause
- Location
- 35 MILES NNE OF GLENNS FERRY, ID
- County
- Elmore County
- State
- Idaho
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Personnel assigned
- 13
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $3,600,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-IDBOF-000777
- IRWIN identifier
- 7912B661-F280-4478-8C71-B35E5EAE0BBC
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 26, from September 7, 2020 to October 29, 2020. 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 structures threatened at once
- 150
- Injuries
- 3
- Most personnel assigned
- 169 on September 15, 2020
- Most aircraft assigned
- 15
- Cost reported by the teams
- $3.6 million, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Grass and Understory)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 319 acres, on September 13, 2020.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 7, 2020 | 3,067 | |
| Sep 8, 2020 | 3,067 | 0 |
| Sep 9, 2020 | 3,067 | 0 |
| Sep 10, 2020 | 3,067 | 0 |
| Sep 11, 2020 | 3,117 | +50 |
| Sep 12, 2020 | 3,367 | +250 |
| Sep 13, 2020 | 3,686 | +319 |
| Sep 14, 2020 | 3,922 | +236 |
| Sep 15, 2020 | 3,922 | 0 |
| Sep 16, 2020 | 3,980 | +58 |
| Sep 17, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 18, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 19, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 20, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 21, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 22, 2020 | 3,980 | 0 |
| Sep 24, 2020 | 3,980 | |
| Oct 1, 2020 | 3,999 | |
| Oct 8, 2020 | 3,999 | |
| Oct 15, 2020 | 3,999 | |
| Oct 22, 2020 | 3,999 | |
| Oct 29, 2020 | 3,999 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Fairfield, ID 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 December 8, 2020 at 2:21 PM MST. Identifier 2020-IDBOF-000777.
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.