Krause Fire
The Krause Fire burned 7,000 acres in Pottawatomie County, Kansas, in 2004. It was discovered on April 7, 2004. MTBS dates its ignition to April 4, 2004. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 7,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 7, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,015 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.394, -96.414.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,015 acres
- Discovered
- April 7, 2004
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 4, 2004
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Pottawatomie County
- Reporting unit
- Kansas Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3937209636220040404
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2004_KS-KSS-0293
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 Kansas in 20044
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 8,203 | Apr 1, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,382 | Apr 1, 2004 | |
| Dunne Ranch Fire | 1,500 | Dec 13, 2004 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Apr 2, 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.