Fourney Creek Fire
The Fourney Creek Fire burned 370 acres in North Carolina, in 1998. It was discovered on April 6, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 370 acres
- Discovered
- April 6, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,580 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.488, -83.541.
The record
- Reported final size
- 370 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,580 acres
- Discovered
- April 6, 1998, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- North Carolina
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NC3548608353519980406
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-224466
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
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.