Hairpin Curve Fire
The Hairpin Curve Fire burned 4,080 acres in Latimer County, Oklahoma, in 2003. It was discovered on April 1, 2003, and contained on April 3, 2003. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 4,080 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 2003
- Contained
- April 3, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 34.774, -95.277.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,080 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 2003, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 3, 2003, 12:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Latimer County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Oklahoma Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2003_OK-OKS-03-20344
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 105
- Most personnel assigned
- 27 on April 3, 2003
- Cost reported by the teams
- $4,000, in 2003 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Top Fire | 5,200 | Apr 1, 2003 | Human |
| Prue Fire | 3,300 | Apr 1, 2003 | Human |
| Twin Mounds Fire | 3,000 | Apr 1, 2003 | Human |
| Fire 10084 | 2,800 | Feb 2, 2003 | Human |
| Roosevelt Fire | 2,499 | Mar 14, 2003 | |
| Cedarcanyo Fire | 2,000 | Apr 1, 2003 | Human |
| Phinney Hl Fire | 1,670 | Oct 29, 2003 | Human |
| Fire 20321 | 1,607 | Mar 30, 2003 | Human |
| Fire 10085 | 1,500 | Feb 2, 2003 | Human |
| Fire 10249 | 1,470 | Apr 2, 2003 | Human |
| Fire 10344 | 1,453 | Jul 26, 2003 | Human |
| Eight Mile Fire | 1,400 | Apr 18, 2003 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.