Marbleyard Fire
The Marbleyard Fire burned 2,935 acres in Rockbridge County, Virginia, in 2002. It was discovered on June 5, 2002, and contained on June 20, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,935 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2002
- Contained
- June 20, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,120 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.583, -79.478.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,935 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,120 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,919 acres
- Discovered
- June 5, 2002, 11:35 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 20, 2002, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Rockbridge County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- VAVAF
- Part of
- Marbleyard Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3759507947420020605
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-379279
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy PBS/SEQ
- Perimeter records
- 11 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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 20022
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fultz Run Fire | 4,200 | Feb 26, 2002 | Human |
| Buck Mtn Fire | 1,146 | Mar 23, 2002 | Human |
Nearby
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.