Wildfires of 2005

Crowell Fire

2005LouisianaWildfire

The Crowell Fire burned 1,100 acres in Louisiana, in 2005. It was discovered on April 28, 2005, and contained on April 29, 2005. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,100 acres
Discovered
April 28, 2005
Contained
April 29, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,423 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.396, -93.031.

The record

Reported final size
1,100 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,423 acres
Discovered
April 28, 2005, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
April 29, 2005, 1:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Louisiana
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Kisatchie National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3139009303920050428
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1430874

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 Louisiana in 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Unit 4-05-01 Fire12,154Jun 1, 2005Natural
Unit 4 05 01 Fire11,746Jun 1, 2005
Unnamed Fire6,578Sep 21, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,932Sep 21, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,384May 16, 2005
Unnamed Fire3,156Aug 1, 2005
Grey ESTATE-2 Fire3,039Aug 29, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire2,852Mar 12, 2005Natural
Unit 1-05-3 Fire2,824Aug 16, 2005Natural
Unit C-05P Fire2,504Sep 11, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire1,915Aug 20, 2005
Unnamed Fire1,806Nov 24, 2005Human

Every fire of 2005 Louisiana fire history

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.