About Time Fire
The About Time Fire burned 706 acres in Arkansas, in 1996. It was discovered on March 9, 1996, and contained on March 10, 1996. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 706 acres
- Discovered
- March 9, 1996
- Contained
- March 10, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,075 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.464, -94.035.
The record
- Reported final size
- 706 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,075 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,074 acres
- Discovered
- March 9, 1996, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 10, 1996, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Arkansas
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Pea Ridge National Military Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- ARPEP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-ARPEP-009615
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3646409404319960309
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-247287
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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.
Nearby
Sources
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.