Single Incident Information

Aerial recon of the fire took place on October 19 and some hot spots remain interior to the fire perimeter with smoke showing.  The fire is not expected to grow and a season ending weather event will move this fire to a contained/out status.  The fire is at 900 acres now.

This fire is located in the Bear Creek drainage, which is a subdrainage off the Little Five Mile Creek approximately 5 miles upriver on the Salmon River from its confluence with the South Fork of the Salmon.

No area or trail closures are in effect for this fire. 

This fire is within the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness and is being managed to meet resource objectives with a point protection strategy to protect identified private and administrative values. The nearest values at risk are the private structures at Five Mile Bar and Payette National Forest Fire Management Officers is in close contact with the residence.

The Lemhi fire grew to around 700 acres over several days at the end of September and remained at that size until October 12th when it began to grow again due to higher temperatures, lower relative humilities and high winds associated with a cold front passage.