Slaughterbeach Fire
The Slaughterbeach Fire burned 1,250 acres in Delaware, in 2002. It was discovered on March 10, 2002, and contained on March 10, 2002.
- Size
- 1,250 acres
- Discovered
- March 10, 2002
- Contained
- March 10, 2002
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,227 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.909, -75.306.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,250 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,227 acres
- Discovered
- March 10, 2002, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 10, 2002, 11:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Delaware
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Prime Hook National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- DE3889507529320020310
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2002DEPHR5626
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.
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.