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Wildfire perimeter

Mortar Creek

Burned 68,260 acres (276 km², 106.7 mi²) in ID during 1979.

IRWIN unkn-20000-692… USFS ID fire history 1979 fires
Acres burned
68,260
276 km²
Year
1979
FIRE_YEAR field
State
ID
POOState region
Reporting agency
USFS
NIFC source
01 Perimeter shape

The fire's footprint

Simplified polygon (≤0.001° tolerance). 3 rings. Centroid 44.675°, -115.035°.

NW: 44.763°N, 115.231°W SE: 44.586°N, 114.840°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.