Wildfire — Eastern Magic Valley, Idaho

2017-07-09 to 2017-07-13 · Eastern Magic Valley, Idaho

Event narrative

Although the fire started in Gooding County the effects were felt to the north and close highways 93 and 24 to Shoshone and east of Shoshone and the fire jumped Route 26 many times. It was a grass and brush fire started by lightning on July 9th about 5 miles south of Shoshone and grew to around 30,000 acres. It was contained on July 13th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 716807. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.