4. Crazy Horse -- Southwest of
Condon, the blaze has grown to about 9,807 acres. Two-dozen homes, and a
popular summer resort are evacuated. More than 300 more are on evacuation
alert. There are 578 people on the fire. 15 percent contained. Suppression
costs $2.2 million.
5. Wedge Canyon -- The fire, a few miles south of the Canadian border and
about 20 miles east of Eureka, has burned 36 buildings, including seven
houses. The fire was up to 40,586 acres by Sunday. Was 60 percent
contained. Suppression costs $22.5 million, 590 firefighters.
6. Hopeful 2 -- Part of a complex near Lolo Pass in both Idaho and
Montana, the blaze temporarily closed a 100-mile long stretch of U.S. 12
Saturday. Some evacuations ordered, including the Lolo Hot Springs. It has
burned about 1,500 acres.
7. Dirty Ike -- Three miles northeast of Clinton has burned about 1,200
acres. Ninety percent contained. About 320 people are working on the
fires, which has cost $1 million so far.
8. Black Mountain 2 -- More than 7,000 acres, burning nine miles west of
Missoula. Saturday night, burned three houses on a nearly 6,000-acre run
it made in two hours. About 130 mandatory home evacuations ordered, 120
more evacuations voluntary. Roughly 180 of those people returned to their
homes Sunday. About 500 firefighters assigned. Suppression costs to date
$575,000.
9. Cherry Creek -- About 10 miles southeast of Thompson Falls in Lolo
National Forest. About 4,000 acres Sunday. About 60 percent contained.
Evacuation alert for about 150 area homes remains in place. Fought by
about 450 firefighters. Fire suppression costs have run about $3.2
million.
10. Boles Meadow fire -- Twenty-five miles northeast of Missoula, this
almost 3,750-acre fire used to be park of a complex combined with the
Mineral/Primm fire. Fifty-percent contained. There are roughly 728 people
fighting the blaze. Suppression has cost $2.4 million so far.
11. Trapper Creek Complex -- On Flattop Mountain, a remote area north of
Going-to-the-Sun Road in the north-central part of Glacier National Park
and about 45 miles northeast of Kalispell. Estimated at 24,053 acres.
Remained 65 percent contained. Suppression costs $3.4 million, 25
firefighters.
12. Mineral/Primm Complex -- Three fires in the Rattlesnake Wilderness
north of Missoula estimated at 11,500 acres. Suppression costs $625,000,
348 firefighters.
13. Cooney Ridge complex -- Twenty miles southeast of Missoula in the
Bitterroot Valley, burning in the Sapphire Mountains. Officials estimate
that six fires have burned together at about 15,000 acres. Ten percent
contained. About 570 people are fighting the fires. Several homes in the
Miller Creek have been given an evacuation warning. Threatening a major
Bonneville Power and NorthWestern power lines. Suppression costs to date
1.4 million.
14. Windmill Complex -- Located 28 miles east of Hardin on Crow and
Northern Cheyenne Indian reservations. Just over 16,000 acres and 30
percent contained. More than 400 people are assigned to the fire.
Firefighting costs are estimated at $500,000
15. Lincoln Complex -- Two fires, the Moose-Wassan fire and the Snow-Talon
fire, burning almost 6,000 acres. One fire is about 10 miles southwest of
Lincoln, the other about 15 miles northeast of Lincoln. Limited
evacuations in the Ogden Mountain Electronic sites area. Other evacuation
warnings in the area. Thirty percent contained. Suppression costs
$500,000, 400 firefighters.
16. Little Salmon Creek Complex -- Two fires in Bob Marshall Wilderness
combined have burned 21,135 acres. Has burned one cabin. About 90 people
working on the fire. A fire use team is assigned, meaning the team is not
attempting to suppress the fire, just manage it. Suppression costs $1
million.
17. Strawberry Mountain -- 1,300 acres burning 27 miles south east of
Missoula. About 250 firefighters on scene and 65 percent contained.
18. Winslow -- 8,150 acres burning five miles southwest of Lakeview. The
fire is 10 percent contained, with 229 firefighters battling the blaze.
About 40 homes are threatened and the cost of the fire to date is
$787,000.
19. Rough Draw Complex -- About 2,000 acres burning 8 miles southeast of
Livingston on the northern boundary of the Beartooth-Absaroka Wilderness
area. More than 500 firefighters on scene and cost $2.4 million so far.
20. Cathedral Peak -- 1,000 acre fire burning 10 miles south of Nye in
steep heavily timbered area in the Beartooth-Absoroka Wilderness area.
21. Sheep Complex -- Burning 750 acres 28 miles north of Townsend. About
60 firefighters on scene and the fire is 40 percent contained.
22. Burnt Ridge -- About 600 acres burning south of Neihart. Ninety-one
firefighters on scene and the fire is 6 percent contained.
23. East -- Has forced closure of Yellowstone National Park's East
entrance and burned 14,000 acres as of Monday. Left a 12 mile stretch of
U.S. 14-16 littered with burned trees. The fire is 12 percent contained,
with 444 firefighters assigned and cost more than $1.1 million so far.
24. Norris -- 180 acres in Shoshone National Forest is 20 percent
contained.
25. Clear Creek Complex --152 acres in Bridger-Teton National Forest 20
miles northeast of Pinedale
26. Cooper Mountain Declared controlled Monday morning. Burned about
2,500 acres before rain helped firefighters stop the blaze.
27. North Bighorn Complex -- 5,250 acres northwest of Sherian, Wyo., is 10
percent contained.
28. Craig 2 -- Was part of the Windmill Complex, estimated at 6,000 acres,
burning east of Hardin. |
Plumes of smoke rise
from the Hobble fire between Big Timber and Reed Point north of the
Yellowstone River in this aerial view taken from 13,000 feet Sunday. The
fire had grown to more than 30,000 acres.
Flames
jump through the trees near I-90 just off mile marker 377 Sunday afternoon.
Hobble
fire continues to burn out of control, damages power lines 
