Camp Faunce Fire
The Camp Faunce Fire burned 1,832 acres in Michigan, in 1998. It was discovered on May 17, 1998, and contained on May 21, 1998. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,832 acres
- Discovered
- May 17, 1998
- Contained
- May 21, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,923 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.250, -84.788.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,832 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,923 acres
- Discovered
- May 17, 1998, 12:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 21, 1998, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Michigan
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Hiawatha National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MI4624808476819980517
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-338491
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 Michigan in 19981
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| OGEMAW16 Fire | 1,238 | Jul 21, 1998 |
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.