Terrapin Creek Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,205 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.869, -85.423.

Reported final size

3,321 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,205 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

2,852 acres

Discovered

April 10, 1995, 10:15 a.m. local time

Contained

April 17, 1995, 5:16 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Arson/incendiarism

State

Alabama

Land ownership at origin

Forest Service

Reporting unit

National Forests in Alabama

Agency

Forest Service

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

AL3388208542819950410

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

FS-308352

Perimeter map method

Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

• Piedmont, AL11 miles west of the fire
• Tallapoosa, GA12 miles southeast of the fire
• Cedartown, GA14 miles northeast of the fire
• Buchanan, GA14 miles east of the fire
• Cave Spring, GA17 miles north of the fire
• Heflin, AL18 miles southwest of the fire

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.