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Thank you for visiting the USDA Forest Service’s Northern Region 1910 Fire Commemoration Information web site.
This website is designed to assist you in locating information on both the Fires of 1910 and the Commemoration events of 2010 that are occurring in Northern Idaho and Western Montana.
The Fires of 1910 touched individuals, families, firefighters, army personnel, communities, and indeed people worldwide during the summer of 1910. As you can see by some of the eye-witness accounts, reports and excerpts from Forest Service employees, news releases and newspaper accounts, and photos, the fires had a large impact on both people and natural resources. To many residents of our communities within the fires impact area, the 1910 Fires are still a current topic of discussion each summer when smoke is in the air.
Many programs in the USDA Forest Service evolved from the 1910 Fires and their aftermath. Indeed, one can say that this event was the young Forest Service’s “trial by fire” that led to the solidifying support of the agency during its turbulent beginning.
We hope that you can locate the information you are seeking within this website or our partners’ websites through the provided links. We will be updating this website as we gather more information about the 1910 Fires and the associated Commemorative events occurring through 2010. If you have information or photos you would like us to add to this website please feel free to contact us.
Headlines such as this loomed large during the time period beginning in August of 1910, through the Big Blowup.
It was a frightening time for the residents of the Wallace, and Coeur d'Alene, Idaho area of the newly formed Region One of the Forest Service.
Fire Area Maps:
Regions of Idaho and western Montana were affected the most by the great fires of 1910. These two maps show the areas that burned over the course of that summer.
Map of the areas affected by the fires
Scanned map of the original of the Forest areas burned in the 1910 Holocaust (so-called at the time).