Hickory Ru Prescribed Fire
The Hickory Ru Prescribed Fire burned 1,014 acres in Virginia, in 2001. It was discovered on November 19, 2001. MTBS dates its ignition to November 18, 2001. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,014 acres
- Discovered
- November 19, 2001
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,056 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.922, -78.725.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,014 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,056 acres
- Discovered
- November 19, 2001
- Ignition (MTBS)
- November 18, 2001
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Virginia
- Reporting unit
- Virginia Department of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3792907873120011118
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SWRA_VA_9081
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 20011
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,283 | Nov 12, 2001 | 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.