Wildfires of 2003

Phinney Hl Fire

2003OklahomaWildfire

The Phinney Hl Fire burned 1,670 acres in Oklahoma, in 2003. It was discovered on October 29, 2003, and contained on October 31, 2003. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.

Size
1,670 acres
Discovered
October 29, 2003
Contained
October 31, 2003
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,250 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.551, -96.439.

The record

Reported final size
1,670 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,250 acres
Discovered
October 29, 2003, 1:30 p.m. local time
Contained
October 31, 2003, 10:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
State
Oklahoma
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Osage Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3653809643820031029
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-387564

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 Oklahoma in 200312

FireAcresStartCause
Rocky Top Fire5,200Apr 1, 2003Human
Hairpin Curve Fire4,080Apr 1, 2003Human
Prue Fire3,300Apr 1, 2003Human
Twin Mounds Fire3,000Apr 1, 2003Human
Fire 100842,800Feb 2, 2003Human
Roosevelt Fire2,499Mar 14, 2003
Cedarcanyo Fire2,000Apr 1, 2003Human
Fire 203211,607Mar 30, 2003Human
Fire 100851,500Feb 2, 2003Human
Fire 102491,470Apr 2, 2003Human
Fire 103441,453Jul 26, 2003Human
Eight Mile Fire1,400Apr 18, 2003Human

Every fire of 2003 Oklahoma fire history

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.