Crystal Lake Fire
The Crystal Lake Fire burned 2,265 acres in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, in 2004. It was discovered on April 19, 2004, and contained on April 21, 2004. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 2,265 acres
- Discovered
- April 19, 2004
- Contained
- April 21, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,834 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.156, -75.370.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,265 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,834 acres
- Discovered
- April 19, 2004, 11:10 a.m. local time
- Contained
- April 21, 2004, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Pennsylvania
- County
- Luzerne County
- Reporting unit
- Pennsylvania Division of Forest Fire Protection
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- PA4116007583620040419
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2004PAPAS20(04)1-007
- Note on the perimeter
- Calling it initial; burned in April post image was May 30 of same year.
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.
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.