Wildfires of 2004

Carter Co 1 Fire

2004Carter County, OklahomaWildfire

The Carter Co 1 Fire burned 1,000 acres in Carter County, Oklahoma, in 2004. It was discovered on February 18, 2004, and contained on February 20, 2004. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
February 18, 2004
Contained
February 20, 2004
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,341 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.283, -97.425.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,341 acres
Discovered
February 18, 2004, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
February 20, 2004, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oklahoma
County
Carter County
Reporting unit
Oklahoma Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3442009738020040218
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2004_OK-OKS-04-40001

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 200412

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire27,116Mar 15, 2004
Unnamed Fire19,667Apr 1, 2004
Unnamed Fire14,155Apr 1, 2004
Unnamed Fire12,184Mar 15, 2004
Unnamed Fire12,103Apr 2, 2004
Tarbone Complex5,930Mar 18, 2004
Unnamed Fire5,752Mar 15, 2004
Cedar Creek Fire5,500Feb 19, 2004Human
Unnamed Fire4,422Apr 1, 2004
Unnamed Fire4,365Mar 15, 2004
Unnamed Fire3,351Mar 31, 2004
Vamoosa Fire3,300Feb 19, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 Oklahoma fire history

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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.