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Butte Fire

Burned 32,909 acres (133 km², 51.4 mi²) in ID during 1985.

IRWIN unkn-20000-698… USFS ID fire history 1985 fires
Acres burned
32,909
133 km²
Year
1985
FIRE_YEAR field
State
ID
POOState region
Reporting agency
USFS
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 2 rings. Centroid 45.400°, -114.440°.

NW: 45.494°N, 114.534°W SE: 45.305°N, 114.346°W

About this perimeter

Sourced from the NIFC InterAgency Fire Perimeter History ArcGIS service. Polygon geometry has been simplified to ≤0.001° tolerance for storage; original full-fidelity perimeters are at fire.nifc.gov. We track all 75,044 documented historical perimeters; this detail view renders the top 1,000 by acreage. The shape above is rendered fully server-side with no JavaScript or external mapping library — it preserves the polygon's shape but not its precise geographic placement on a basemap.