Macon Se Fire
The Macon Se Fire burned 1,005 acres in Macon County, Alabama, in 2004. It was discovered on April 7, 2004, and contained on April 8, 2004. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,005 acres
- Discovered
- April 7, 2004
- Contained
- April 8, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 884 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.312, -85.873.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,005 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 884 acres
- Discovered
- April 7, 2004, 6:02 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 8, 2004, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Macon County
- Reporting unit
- Alabama Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AL3231808587220040407
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ALS-MGM-20040407-004
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.