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The Lolo Peak Fire was a wildfire in Lolo National Forest and Bitterroot National Forest, Montana in the United States, that began by lightning strikes on the western flank of Lolo Peak, 10 miles southwest of Lolo, Montana on July 15, 2017. The fire burned a total of 53,902 acres (218 km 2).
The Bitter Root Forest Reserve was established by the United States General Land Office on March 1, 1898, with 4,147,200 acres (16,783 km 2). It was transferred to the U.S. Forest Service in 1906. On July 1, 1908, the name was changed to Bitterroot National Forest, with lands added from Big Hole National Forest and Hell Gate National Forest.
It was taken on August 6, 2000, [2] on the East Fork of the Bitterroot River on the Sula Complex, Bitterroot National Forest, Montana, United States, [3] and is also sometimes known by the title, Bitterroot Forest Fire or, more vaguely, Montana Fire. When NASA featured it in its online Astronomy Picture of the Day series, it was called Fire on ...
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2018. It is a 1936-pattern L-4 lookout. [1] It is a staffed lookout. It is on Gardiner Peak, above the Selway River, within the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Area on the boundary between the Nez Perce National Forest and the Bitterroot National Forest. [2]
The Reynolds Lake Fire, caused by lightning on July 17, straddles the Bitterroot National Forest and Salmon-Challis National Forest southwest of Darby, Montana at 5] It reached over 1,000 acres (400 ha) in extent by July 22. [6]
The McCart Fire Lookout, near Sula, Montana, was built in 1939.It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996. [1]It is an L-4 Fire Lookout, located at 7,115 feet (2,169 m) elevation, about 4 miles (6.4 km) south of the East Fork Forest Service Station in Bitterroot National Forest.
Nearly $900 million (USD) was spent fighting fires. Long-lasting ecological damage, including flooding, top soil runoff, and air quality damage continues to this day. [3] The damage was particularly severe in the Bitterroot National Forest.
Current Texas Wildfires. This map shows wildfires that have been updated within the past 7 days from the Integrated Reporting of Wildland-Fire Information (IRWIN) and the National Interagency Fire ...