Wildfires of 2001

Flat Rock Fire

2001ArkansasWildfire

The Flat Rock Fire burned 1,470 acres in Arkansas, in 2001. It was discovered on March 13, 2001, and contained on March 14, 2001. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,470 acres
Discovered
March 13, 2001
Contained
March 14, 2001
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 992 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.964, -92.917.

The record

Reported final size
1,470 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
992 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,484 acres
Discovered
March 13, 2001, 9:00 a.m. local time
Contained
March 14, 2001, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Arkansas
Land ownership at origin
National Park Service
Reporting unit
Buffalo National River
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
ARBUP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2001-ARBUP-000013
MTBS fire identifier
AR3595809292220010313
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-246382
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 Arkansas in 20012

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire6,351Mar 9, 2001
Unnamed Fire3,281Apr 9, 2001

Every fire of 2001 Arkansas fire history

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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.