Wildfire in New York, April 18, 2001

Name: Wildfire in New York, April 18, 2001
Start: 2001-04-18T14:45
End: 2001-04-18T16:30
Location: New York

April 18, 2001 · NWS ALY · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $5,000
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Albany, NY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 18, 1:20 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 18, 1:20 PM EST, 1 hour 25 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
220 PM EDT WED APR 18 2001

.DISC...
LOW PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE NEWD OVRNGT...AS S/WV SLIDES FROM WRN NY
ACROSS CWA BUT WEAKENS. ASSOCIATED CENTER OF VORT MAX DIVES WELL
SOUTH OF REGION.  SOME CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH IT WILL MOVE INTO
WRN ZONES FOR AWHILE BEFORE CLEARING TNT...SO WILL MTN PRTLY CLDY
THESE AREAS.  HIPRESS RIDGE TAKING HOLD THURS THRU ERLY FRIDAY WILL
BRING DRY WX.  NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM THE WEST ON FRIDAY WITH
HI MOISTR LVLS REACHING WRN NY AROUND 12Z FRI...FINGER LAKES BY
MIDDAY AND COVERS FA BY END OF DAY.  VORT MAX SLIDING OVER LAKE
ONTARIO WITH NW-SE ORIENTATED S/WV BRINGS SOME PVA INTO CWA BY LATE
FRIDAY...SPCLLY WRN ZONES...SO WILL GIVE THEM CHC POPS FOR THE
AFTN...BUT KEEP MTN OF PCPN OUT OF ERN AREAS UNTIL FRI NGT.

QUITE A COMBO OF MDLS THIS RUN...USING NGM FOR SHORT RANGE...ETA FOR
MID RANGE...AND AVN FOR LONGER TERM - ONLY BECAUSE THATS WHATS AVBL
DUE TO COMPUTER AND COMMS PROBLEMS IN WASHINGTON.

ALBWRKZFP AVBL FOR COORD...SENT ON NETWORK.

.ALY...NY ERN...CONT FLOOD WARNING ON SCHROON RIVER NYZ042...
                OTRW NONE.

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The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Schenectady

When: April 18, 2:45 PM EST to 4:30 PM EST
Where: Schenectady County, Glenville
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 42.818, -74.059 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A dry, breezy day allowed a small fire to briefly rage out of control near Glenville, Schenectady County on April 17. The blaze scorched between four and six acres of grasslands, and threatened several homes west of the Glendale Nursing Home. Some residents of the nursing home were evacuated. There was no structural damage nor injuries reported to the National Weather Service.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

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The same day elsewhere

Every storm in New York in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in New York, April 2001

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5239466.