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Fire Name: Garden Fire Fire Size: 3,061 Cause: lightning Location: approximately two (2) miles southwest of the confluence of Panther Creek and the Main Salmon River on the North Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Fuels: grass, brush, dead and down fuels, and timber

Fire Name: Garden Fire Fire Size: 6,000 (estimated) Cause: lightning Location: approximately two (2) miles southwest of the confluence of Panther Creek and the Main Salmon River on the North Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.  Fuels: grass, brush, dead and down fuels, and timber

Fire Size: 2,402 Cause: lightning Location: approximately two (2) miles southwest of the confluence of Panther Creek and the Main Salmon River on the North Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness. Fuels: grass, brush, dead and down fuels, and timberInciWeb: https://inciweb.wildfire.gov/incident-information/idscf-garden-fire  

There have been two (2) new fire reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest since the last update on Monday, September 23, 2024.  To date, there have been 64 wildfires reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest.  53 of the fires have been declared out.Mowitch (September 29): is approximately three (3) miles north of Indian Creek on the Middle Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.  The 30 acre fire is burning in grass, brush, spruce, fir, and ponderosa pine.

Fire Name: Nugget FireFire Size: 297Cause: lightningLocation: approximately 40 miles west of Salmon on the North Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness, west of the Middle Fork of the Salmon River.Fuels: grass and brush with scattered timber.

There have been three (3) new fires reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest since the last update on Monday, September 16, 2024.  To date, there have been 62 wildfires reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest.  48 of the fires have been declared out.  Endoah (September 19): is approximately 40 miles northwest of Stanley on the Middle Fork Ranger District in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness.  The 0.10 acre fire burning in brush, spruce, and fir is 100% contained and controlled.  

There have been nine (9) new fires reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest since the last update on Monday, September 9, 2024.  To date, there have been 59 wildfires reported on the Salmon-Challis National Forest.  40 of the fires have been declared out.  Ebenezer (September 15): is approximately 27 miles west of North Fork on the North Fork Ranger District.  The fire is approximately 0.10 acres burning in a down log.