Bass River Fire
The Bass River Fire burned 11,765 acres in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 1999. It was discovered on April 30, 1999. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 11,765 acres
- Discovered
- April 30, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,120 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.696, -74.421.
The record
- Reported final size
- 11,765 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,120 acres
- Discovered
- April 30, 1999
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Burlington County
- Reporting unit
- New Jersey Forest Fire Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NJ3966607445719990430
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-NJ0285-99_B043010
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.