Blaylock Mountain Fire
The Blaylock Mountain Fire burned 1,550 acres in Arkansas, in 2003. It was discovered on April 1, 2003, and contained on April 2, 2003. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,550 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 2003
- Contained
- April 2, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 922 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.362, -93.928.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,550 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 922 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,549 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 2003, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 2, 2003, 1:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Arkansas
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Ouachita National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- AROUF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3436109393920030401
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-383814
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 Arkansas in 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 9,745 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,277 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,416 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,340 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,519 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,333 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,430 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,993 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,632 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,607 | Mar 15, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,348 | Mar 31, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,198 | Mar 31, 2003 |
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.