Orear Complex Fire
The Orear Complex Fire burned 12,368 acres in Texas, in 2001. It was discovered on July 17, 2001.
- Size
- 12,368 acres
- Discovered
- July 17, 2001
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,749 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.785, -100.451.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,368 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 14,749 acres
- Discovered
- July 17, 2001
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Part of
- O'rear Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3478510045020010717
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-538
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 Texas in 200112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Branch - 1 Fire | 25,000 | May 28, 2001 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 20,263 | Jul 28, 2001 | |
| Unit 1 Fire | 5,309 | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| Unit 12 Fire | 4,176 | Dec 19, 2001 | |
| Savannah S Fire | 3,980 | Jun 29, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,390 | May 29, 2001 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,250 | Jun 29, 2001 | Natural |
| St.patty Fire | 2,344 | Mar 17, 2001 | Natural |
| Wharton Ho Fire | 2,257 | Feb 25, 2001 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,990 | Jun 28, 2001 | Human |
| Ditch 4 6 Fire | 1,916 | Feb 1, 2001 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,875 | Mar 20, 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.