Brokn Gose Fire
The Brokn Gose Fire burned 1,450 acres in Louisiana, in 2001. It was discovered on October 2, 2001. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,450 acres
- Discovered
- October 2, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,347 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.983, -93.736.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,450 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,347 acres
- Discovered
- October 2, 2001, 2:15 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2999309372920011002
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2001LASBR4203
- Note on the perimeter
- Emergent herbaceous wetland
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from October 3, 2001 to October 7, 2001. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 8 on October 3, 2001
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $5,000, in 2001 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 3, 2001 | 1,450 | |
| Oct 4, 2001 | 1,450 | 0 |
| Oct 7, 2001 | 1,450 |
Other large fires in Louisiana in 20016
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sisters B Fire | 7,000 | Jun 27, 2001 | Natural |
| Sisters A Fire | 5,706 | Jun 29, 2001 | Natural |
| Storm Fire | 2,062 | Jun 21, 2001 | Natural |
| Storm Fire | 1,619 | Jun 21, 2001 | |
| Lost Sboat Fire | 1,380 | Oct 19, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,276 | Oct 28, 2001 |
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.