Callisburg Fire
The Callisburg Fire burned 5,600 acres in Cooke County, Texas, in 2005. It was discovered on December 27, 2005, and contained on December 29, 2005. The cause was recorded as human. Incident teams reported 39 structures destroyed and 1 death.
- Size
- 5,600 acres
- Discovered
- December 27, 2005
- Contained
- December 29, 2005
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 39
- Deaths
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,798 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.752, -96.976.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,798 acres
- Discovered
- December 27, 2005
- Contained
- December 29, 2005, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Cooke County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3375209706920051227
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX02230705-71124
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: 5, from December 27, 2005 to January 24, 2006. 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
- 39 (14 residences, 25 other)
- Structures damaged
- 5 (5 residences)
- Most structures threatened at once
- 80
- Deaths
- 1
- Most personnel assigned
- 75 on December 27, 2005
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 600 acres, on December 28, 2005.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Dec 27, 2005 | 5,000 | |
| Dec 28, 2005 | 5,600 | +600 |
| Dec 29, 2005 | 5,600 | 0 |
| Dec 30, 2005 | 5,600 | 0 |
| Jan 24, 2006 | 5,600 |
Other large fires in Texas in 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 15,130 | Jul 2, 2005 | Natural |
| RX Unit 12 1117 2005 Fire | 10,727 | Nov 17, 2005 | |
| Daisy Fire | 10,003 | Nov 15, 2005 | Natural |
| Three Points Fire | 8,382 | Jul 2, 2005 | Natural |
| Crossroads Fire | 7,660 | Dec 27, 2005 | Human |
| Wagner Ranch Fire | 5,120 | Nov 27, 2005 | Human |
| Talpa Fire | 5,112 | Aug 4, 2005 | |
| Fm 920 Fire | 4,500 | Dec 3, 2005 | Human |
| Wf Whites Levee Fire | 4,233 | Aug 1, 2005 | |
| Wf Whites Fee Fire | 4,145 | Jul 29, 2005 | Natural |
| Wf 10-11 Fire | 4,000 | Sep 17, 2005 | |
| Wf Unit 6 Fire | 3,500 | Sep 3, 2005 | Natural |
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.