Cicero Creek Fire
The Cicero Creek Fire burned 1,026 acres in Washington County, Missouri, in 2004. It was discovered on April 18, 2004, and contained on April 19, 2004. The cause was recorded as human. Incident teams reported 1 structure destroyed.
- Size
- 1,026 acres
- Discovered
- April 18, 2004
- Contained
- April 19, 2004
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,841 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.042, -91.022.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,026 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,841 acres
- Discovered
- April 18, 2004, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 19, 2004, 6:15 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Missouri
- County
- Washington County
- Reporting unit
- Missouri Department of Conservation
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MO3803509101420040418
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2004-MO-MOS-000011
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.
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.
- Structures destroyed
- 1
- Most structures threatened at once
- 4
- Most personnel assigned
- 22 on April 20, 2004
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Hardwood Litter
Other large fires in Missouri in 20042
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Fire | 1,923 | Feb 26, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,232 | Apr 6, 2004 |
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. 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.