NO.1WILD Fire
The NO.1WILD Fire burned 5,816 acres in Georgia, in 2002. It was discovered on March 21, 2002. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 5,816 acres
- Discovered
- March 21, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,353 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.649, -82.208.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,816 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,353 acres
- Discovered
- March 21, 2002, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Georgia
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- GA3067208217820020321
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2002GAOKR4529
- Note on the perimeter
- Wetlands.
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 Georgia in 20027
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackjack Bay Complex | 124,110 | May 3, 2002 | Natural |
| Bay Creek Fire | 11,913 | May 2, 2002 | |
| Comp 24 Fire | 1,697 | Mar 6, 2002 | |
| Comp 16 E Fire | 1,646 | Jan 30, 2002 | |
| Comp 22 23 Fire | 1,438 | Feb 23, 2002 | |
| 2 A 2 B 6 N Fire | 1,246 | Jan 9, 2002 | |
| Comp 3 Fire | 1,178 | Feb 12, 2002 |
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.