Fire prevention efforts between the Idaho Transportation Department and the Bureau of Land Management continue to reduce the number of large human-caused fires along the Interstate 84 corridor from Boise to Mountain Home.
The ITD Mountain Home maintenance crew is actively mowing the I-84 shoulders, median, and gores, which is more than 400 miles of vegetation, covering 64 miles of roadway.
During the late 1900s and early 2000s, there was a steady increase in wildfires along the I-84 corridor, making the area one of the largest wildfire hotspots in the country.
By 2013, BLM and ITD, fully implemented a fuel break strategy along the I-84 corridor, which included mowing, constructing fuel breaks, and improving roadway aprons and that reduced the average fire size by 95% over the past seven years, despite a 30% increase in traffic flow.
