Wildfire in New York, April 19, 2001

Name: Wildfire in New York, April 19, 2001
Start: 2001-04-19T15:00
End: 2001-04-19T16:00
Location: New York

April 19, 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: $2,000
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 19, 12:40 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 19, 12:40 PM EST, 2 hours 20 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ALBANY NY
140 PM EDT THU APR 19 2001

.DISC...HIPRESS RIDGE WILL HOLD OVER CWA INTO MST OF FRIDAY.  WK
VORT TROF SLIDING W-E ACROSS FA FRIDAY...BUT LO MOISTR SO MST IT
WILL BRING IS A FEW CLDS.  NEXT SYSTEM APPROACHES FROM SW FRI NGT.
WRMFNT OVRRNG AND PST FRNTL SHWRS PSBL IN WRM SCTR...BUT ALL MDLS
SUGGEST LGT IF ANY PCPN AMNTS.  THREAT OF A BIT HVR SHWRS ON SAT
AFTN/EVNG WI FAST MOVG S/WV CROSS AREA PROVIDING BRIEF PVA AND HI
MOISTR.  WIL CONT CHC PCPN SUN & MON WI WK SYSTEMS MOVG RPDLY ACROSS
REGION.

.HYDRO...CONT FLD WRNG FOR THE SCHROON RVR...LOOKS LIKE IT WILL STAY
ABV FLOOD LVLS TIL AT LEAST 4/26...WITH COMBO OF SNOWMELT AND PCPN.
TEMPS WILL STAY ON MILD SIDE FOR AT LEAST SVRL DAYS...HELPING WITH
INCRSG SNOWMELT.

ALBWRKZFP SENT FOR COORD...WILL ADD CHC SHWRS ON MONDAY ALL ZNS.

.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, Rensselaer

When: April 19, 3:00 PM EST to 4:00 PM EST
Where: Rensselaer County, Schaghticoke
Property damage: $2,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 42.711, -73.510 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Very dry and breezy conditions allowed a small fire to erupt briefly out of control on the afternoon of April 19 in Schaghticoke, Rensselaer County. The fire scorched a 3-acre section of the Swallow Farm cornfield, located on Route 67. The blaze was extinquished in about an hour and luckily, resulted in neither injuries nor building damage.

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: 5239467.