Wildfire, Delaware
- When
- November 11, 4:00 AM EST to 9:00 AM EST
- Where
- Delaware County, Ridley Park
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 39.917, -75.399 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in Pennsylvania, November 11, 2001
An early morning wildfire consumed dried leaves, grasses and wood near Ridley Creek Park in Edgemont Township. Winds and dry conditions helped the fire spread quickly.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 happened
The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
An early morning wildfire consumed dried leaves, grasses and wood near Ridley Creek Park in Edgemont Township. Winds and dry conditions helped the fire spread quickly. Two other firefighting units assisted in extinguishing the fire. In the state of Pennsylvania, there were 250 wildfires between July 1st and November 8th.
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 Philadelphia/Mount Holly wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 10, 7:45 PM EST, 8 hours 15 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 10, 7:45 PM EST, 8 hours 15 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MOUNT HOLLY NJ 745 PM EST SAT NOV 10 2001 COLD FRONT IS MOVING SE AND IS INTO NW PA/WRN NY STATE. IT SHOULD REACH PHL ARND 6Z. LOTS OF SC BEHIND THE FRONT WHICH WILL MAKE IT SE INTO THE NRN ZONES ARND MIDNIGHT AND THEN SRN ZONES AFTER THAT. HOWEVER...DOWNSLOPE SHOULD KEEP CLOUDS FROM BECMG OVC SRN ZONES. NEW MESOETA...SUGGEST THAT A CAA NW FLOW PATN DVLPS BEHIND THE FRONT HOLDING CLOUDS NORTH TMRW AND ALLOWING SOME CLOUDS TO REMAIN SOUTH. THEREFORE I WILL REWORD SUN TO SHOW MORE CLDS. RNS -------------------------------------------------------- PRVS CDFNT DROPPING THRU TNGT...BUT NO PCPN IN FCST. ACTUALLY...KEEPING ALL 7 DAYS DRY. ALTHO AVN HAS SOME SPITS WED NGT...AND EXTDD GUIDANCE HAS ANOTHER WK CDFNT FRI...WL GO WITH PERSISTANCE FOR NOW. SML CRAFT ADVY GOING UP ALL WATERS. XPC WNDS TO DCR IN THE AFT SUN AS HIGH BLDS IN. OTRW...JUST SOME CLDS FM TIME TO TIME THRU THE 7 DAY PD...BUT AS LONG AS FLOW STAYS FM THE NW...ODDS FOR PCPN RMN LOW. ZONES WIBIS ABT 3 PM. .PHI...SML CRAFT ADVY CST AND DE BAY. KRAUS
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Wildfire
- A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Winter Weather in Vermont, November 11 to 12, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, November 11 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Alaska, November 11, 2001
- Wildfire in New Jersey, November 11 to 14, 2001
- Hail in Texas, November 11, 2001
- Waterspout in Gulf of Mexico, November 11, 2001
More
Every storm in Pennsylvania in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Pennsylvania, November 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: 5272939.