Mule Butte Fire
1999138,309 acresIdaho
The Mule Butte Fire burned 138,309 acres, about 216 square miles, across 3 counties. It began on August 3, 1999.
Watch how it happenedMule 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Highmost vegetation consumed, soils altered | 0.3% | 401 |
| Moderatemixed: many trees killed, some survive | 48% | 66,893 |
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 44% | 60,864 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 5.9% | 8,215 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 1.4% | 1,937 |
under 1% of the area inside the perimeter burned at high severity, about 401 acres; 49% burned at moderate or high severity.
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.
| Blaine County | ID | 91,191 |
| Power County | ID | 37,894 |
| Minidoka County | ID | 9,016 |
Other large fires in Idaho in 1999
- Cedar Butte Fire49,609 acres
- Ineel Fire43,532 acres
- East Slick Fire36,681 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.