Buoy Line Fire
The Buoy Line Fire burned 11,000 acres in Oklahoma, in 1997. It was discovered on March 6, 1997, and contained on March 8, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 11,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 6, 1997
- Contained
- March 8, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,117 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.658, -101.185.
The record
- Reported final size
- 11,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,117 acres
- Discovered
- March 6, 1997, 1:16 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 8, 1997, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Optima National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3668310116819970306
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1997OKOPR2670
- Note on the perimeter
- Acres much smaller than first reported.
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.
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 19973
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comanche RX Fire | 4,743 | Mar 26, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,920 | Apr 3, 1997 | Human |
| Elk Mountain RX Fire | 1,400 | Mar 19, 1997 |
Nearby
Sources
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.