Buck Creek Fire
The Buck Creek Fire burned 2,300 acres in Oklahoma, in 2001. It was discovered on March 24, 2001, and contained on March 25, 2001. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,300 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2001
- Contained
- March 25, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 36.320, -96.324.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,300 acres
- Discovered
- March 24, 2001, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 25, 2001, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Osage Agency
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- W-387413
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. 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
- 17 on March 26, 2001
- Cost reported by the teams
- $6,000, in 2001 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 20018
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,139 | Apr 9, 2001 | |
| Liberty Fire | 4,050 | Mar 19, 2001 | Human |
| Boston So Fire | 1,754 | Mar 24, 2001 | Human |
| Webb Fire | 1,750 | Jul 12, 2001 | |
| A-Road Fire | 1,500 | Apr 2, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,300 | Apr 7, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,240 | Nov 15, 2001 | Human |
| Naval Res Fire | 500 | Mar 4, 2001 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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.