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The 2000–2001 Western United States wildfires were a series of unusually severe wildfires that caused more than $2 billion in damage [1] and resulted in the deaths of four firefighters. [2] Overall, 6,966,995 acres burned across the United States and 2.2 million of those acres were in Idaho and Montana alone.
By August, there were approximately 1,400 wildfires burning out of control in northern Idaho, northeastern Washington, and northwestern Montana. On 20 August, some of these wildfires blew-up into huge firestorms, threatening a number of rural communities and trapping firefighting crews. One of those crews was led by Ed Pulaski.
Smoke around the Treasure Valley and across the Pacific Northwest is coming from multiple fires. These sources show where.
The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the Big Blowup, the Big Burn, or the Devil's Broom fire) was a wildfire in the Inland Northwest region of the United States that in the summer of 1910 burned three million acres (4,700 sq mi; 12,100 km 2, approximately the size of Connecticut) in North Idaho and Western Montana, with extensions into Eastern Washington and Southeast British ...
Parts of metros in Utah, Florida, Idaho, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada are also very high-risk zones. For example, about 58% of St. George, Utah’s 180,000 residents live in a “very high ...
Story at a glance Nationally, more than 90 active wildfires have consumed close to 814,000 acres so far and just four are considered contained. Wildfires have burned more than 6.6 million acres ...
87 people (including 78 firefighters) killed and several towns destroyed across north Idaho and western Montana. ~2,000 separate blazes burned an area the size of Connecticut in what is believed to have been the largest fire in recorded U.S. history up to that point, although it has since been exceeded by the 2011 Texas wildfires and the 2020 ...
Wildfires have burned more than 6.6 million acres nationwide to date in 2022. Currently the largest fires are in Oregon, California and Idaho. Extreme weather conditions across the American ...