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Yellowstone National Park
2007 Fire Report
ID Name Cause Start Status Size
0726 Stonetop lightning 09/21/2007 out 0.1 ac
0725 Big Grassy lightning 09/15/2007 out 14 ac
0724 Specimen lightning 09/14/2007 out 0.1 ac
0723 Cave lightning 09/10/2007 out 219 ac
0721 Lookout lightning 08/26/2007 out 7 ac
0720 Grouse lightning 08/17/2007 out 0.1 ac
0719 Thistle lightning 08/16/2007 out 0.1 ac
0718 Huckleberry lightning 08/11/2007 out 40 ac
0717, 0716, 0715 Promontory Complex lightning 08/09/2007 out 1,638 ac
0714 Columbine 1 lightning 08/09/2007 out 18,500 ac
0713 Brown Trout Powerline - wind 08/04/2007 out 8/7 0.1 ac
0712 Beaverdam lightning 07/22/2007 out 1,353 ac
0711 Owl lightning 07/20/2007 out

2,810 ac

0710 Feather lightning 07/14/2007 out 8/8 0.1 ac
0709 Elephant lightning 07/06/2007 out 8/8 0.1 ac
0708 Chicken lightning 07/06/2007 out 8/8 0.1 ac
0707 Raven lightning 07/06/2007 out 8/8 20 ac
0706 Solfatara human 07/01/2007 out 8/8 0.1 ac
0705 Wolverine human 06/29/2007 out 6/29 0.1 ac
0704 Black lightning 06/05/2007 out 6/15 0.1 ac
0703 Columbine human 6/3/2007 out 6/4 0.1 ac
0702 Barnes human 5/19/2007 out 5/19 0.1 ac
0701 Rattlesnake lightning 4/18/2007 WFU - out 5/3 0.1 ac
Fire in Yellowstone Pineland in 1988  

Did You Know?
The 1988 fires affected 793,880 acres or 36 percent of the park. Five fires burned into the park that year from adjacent public lands. The largest, the North Fork Fire, started from a discarded cigarette. It burned more than 410,000 acres.

Last Updated: June 26, 2008 at 11:19 EST