Glacier National Park
National Park Service
PO Box 128 West Glacier Montana 59936
West Glacier, MT 59936
The Elder Creek Fire started on September 2, 2017, in Canada on the Montana and British Columbia border. A local Type 3 Team has been managing the fire since 9/24/2017.
Daily updates are available on the Sprague Fire Inciweb page: https://inciweb.nwcg.gov/incident/news/5510
Current as of | |
Incident Type | Wildfire |
Cause | Human |
Date of Origin | Saturday September 02nd, 2017 approx. 01:55 PM |
Location | 40 miles north of West Glacier, Montana, on the US/Canada Border |
Coordinates | 48.999 latitude, -114.415 longitude |
Size | 659 Acres |
Percent of Perimeter Contained | 75% |