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The Boulder Fire was started by lightning on the evening of July 24, 2024, approximately 1 mile to the southeast of Tripod Lookout. Fire crews responded immediately. Steep terrain, difficult access and unfavorable weather conditions encouraged fire spread. The Boise National Forest continued to manage the fire until a Complex Incident Management Team was requested.
Great Basin Team 2 assumed command of the Boulder Fire at 6am on Aug 10, 2024 and will manage the Boulder Fire, the Snag Fire and Dollar Fire on the Boise National Forest as well as the Wolf Creek Fire that started on the Payette National Forest and has spread to the Boise National Forest. All of these fires, along with a number of others were started by the same series of thunder storms on the 24th and 25th of July.
Currently no evacuations have been ordered, road closures are in effect and please avoid the fire area so that fire suppression efforts are not impacted. https://www.fs.usda.gov/managing-land/fire/uas/if-you-fly
The Boise National Forest, Idaho Department of Lands, and Bureau of Land Management are in Stage 1 fire restrictions on state, endowment, private and federal lands within the West Central Mountains Fire Restrictions Zone. For more information, visit the Idaho fires Restrictions website at: https://www.idl.idaho.gov/fire-management/fire-restrictions-finder/
| Current as of | Sun, 08/11/2024 - 23:52 |
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| Incident Time Zone | America/Boise |
| Incident Type | Wildfire |
| Cause | Lightning/Natural |
| Date of Origin | |
| Location | 9 Miles southwest of Cascade, Idaho. |
| Incident Commander | Tony DeMasters, Great Basin Complex Incident Management Team #2 |
| Incident Description | Lightning caused |
| Coordinates |
44° 22' 40'' Latitude
-116° 06' 53
'' Longitude
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| Total Personnel: | 425 |
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| Size | 1,594 Acres |
| Percent of Perimeter Contained | 6% |
| Estimated Containment Date | 9/15/2024 |
| Fuels Involved | Dry fuels: Timber (Litter and Understory) and Brush (2 feet) Subalpine fir, snowberry, sagebrush, perennial grasses. Steep terrain. |
| Significant Events | Active Isolated Torching Spotting Flanking Active fire behavior was observed throughout the night and into the day, with surface burning of timber/understory, and isolated torching and spotting. |
| Planned Actions |
The South Flank will continue to hold and improve with hose lays and direct tactics. Crews will continue to mop-up along dozer lines and evaluate opportunities for direct engagement of the fire edge. The east flank will continue with firing operations along dozer line and existing roads. |
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| Projected Incident Activity |
Tonight: The fire will continue to burn east into the South Fork of Fawn Creek and toward the following values: private structures, timber sales, and other cultural/resource values, continue north in Fawn Creek, northeast towards Grassy Flat; light observed fire behavior west on Tripod Peak towards Tripod lookout due to unseasonably high ERCs and poor RH recovery. Spotting will be likely. Light fire behavior is expected to the south towards Boulder Creek. Outflow winds from thunderstorms could increase fire behavior. |
| Remarks |
This incident in being managed by GBT2 along with five other incidents (Wolf Creek, Snag, Dollar, and Goat). |
| Weather Concerns | Today, temperatures rose into the low 70s with minimum humidity 20-25% on the fires. Winds were mainly terrain driven with west to southwest winds 6 to 11mph with gusts to15mph on ridges. On Monday, there will be a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms in the morning, and again overnight into Tuesday. Temperatures Monday will continue in the low 70s with afternoon humidity increasing a few percent into the mid 20s. Winds from the southwest will become breezy on ridgelines with gusts to 25 mph. The trend after Monday will be toward cooler temperatures, higher humidity, breezy ridge winds from the west to southwest, and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms each day. |
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