Wildfires of 2002

Bay Creek Fire

2002GeorgiaWildfire

The Bay Creek Fire burned 11,913 acres in Georgia, in 2002. MTBS dates its ignition to May 2, 2002.

Size
11,913 acres
Ignition
May 2, 2002

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,913 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 30.840, -82.453.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
11,913 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
May 2, 2002
State
Georgia
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
GA3084008245320020502
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
Wetlands.

Other large fires in Georgia in 20027

FireAcresStartCause
Blackjack Bay Complex124,110May 3, 2002Natural
NO.1WILD Fire5,816Mar 21, 2002Human
Comp 24 Fire1,697Mar 6, 2002
Comp 16 E Fire1,646Jan 30, 2002
Comp 22 23 Fire1,438Feb 23, 2002
2 A 2 B 6 N Fire1,246Jan 9, 2002
Comp 3 Fire1,178Feb 12, 2002

Every fire of 2002 Georgia fire history

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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. 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.