Calendar Year 2002
Year-End Fire Report
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The following is an excerpt from the Calendar Year 2002 Year-End Fire Report:
Season in Review
Even under the effects of a multiple year drought, the 2002 fire season was below average in terms of fire occurrence and acreage burned. On lands for which the Idaho Department of Lands, Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association and the Southern Idaho Timber Protective Association provide wildland fire protection, fire fighters responded to 319 fires (77 percent of the 19-year average). These fires burned 2,175 acres, which is 23 percent of average.
Quick response by dedicated teams of fire fighters kept 93 percent of these fires below 10 acres.
The season's largest ignition source was lightning, with 170 starts (53 percent of the year's total). Human activity ignited 149 (47 percent) of the fires. Even though people started fewer fires, person-caused fires burned 66 percent of the burned area for 1433 acres. Lightning fires burned 742 acres (34 percent) of the acres. Of the human-caused ignitions, debris burning started the most fires and burned the most area. The most expensive category was equipment use.
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August 18, 2002
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