Magpie Camp Fire
The Magpie Camp Fire burned 1,883 acres in Billings County, North Dakota, in 2004. It was discovered on August 15, 2004, and contained on August 17, 2004. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 1,883 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2004
- Contained
- August 17, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,112 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.292, -103.507.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,883 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,112 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,526 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 2004, 1:20 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 17, 2004, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- North Dakota
- County
- Billings County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Dakota Prairie National Grasslands
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NDDPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2004-NDDPF-000011
- MTBS fire identifier
- ND4727210352120040815
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-398756
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
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 North Dakota in 20044
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Deep Creek Fire | 3,740 | Sep 1, 2004 | Human |
| Fischer Fire | 2,543 | Apr 5, 2004 | Human |
| Richardton Fire | 1,500 | Sep 1, 2004 | Human |
| Windmill Fire | 1,034 | Oct 5, 2004 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.