Cedar Butte Fire
199949,609 acresIdaho
The Cedar Butte Fire burned 49,609 acres, about 78 square miles, across Bingham County. It began on July 20, 1999.
Watch how it happenedCedar Butte Fire · 1999
How it happened
See how severely each place burned, revealed outward from where it started.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 85% | 42,391 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 5.7% | 2,809 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 8.9% | 4,402 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Bingham County | ID | 49,624 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 1999
- Mule Butte Fire138,309 acres
- Ineel Fire43,532 acres
- East Slick Fire36,681 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.