Shop Run Prescribed Fire
The Shop Run Prescribed Fire burned 2,206 acres in Virginia, in 1999. It was discovered on May 1, 1999, and contained on May 8, 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to April 27, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,206 acres
- Discovered
- May 1, 1999
- Contained
- May 8, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,263 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.187, -78.751.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,206 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,263 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,230 acres
- Discovered
- May 1, 1999, 11:30 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 27, 1999
- Contained
- May 8, 1999, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Virginia
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Shenandoah National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- VASHP
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1999-VASHP-009912
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3816107878619990427
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-238049
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 19992
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fort Lewis Mtn Fire | 1,349 | Nov 15, 1999 | Human |
| Purgatory Mtn Fire | 1,285 | Aug 7, 1999 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.