Purgatory Mtn Fire
The Purgatory Mtn Fire burned 1,285 acres in Virginia, in 1999. It was discovered on August 7, 1999. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,285 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,366 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.530, -79.698.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,285 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,366 acres
- Discovered
- August 7, 1999
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Virginia
- Reporting unit
- Virginia Department of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3754007969519990807
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SWRA_VA_7320
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 Virginia in 19991
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lewis Mtn Fire | 1,349 | Nov 15, 1999 | Human |
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.