Maces Cr. 1 Fire
The Maces Cr. 1 Fire burned 3,000 acres in Perry County, Kentucky, in 2005. It was discovered on November 4, 2005.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- November 4, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,647 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.108, -83.170.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,647 acres
- Discovered
- November 4, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Perry County
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Maces Cr. # 2
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3711908315920051104
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-KY00810505-193-01878
- Note on the perimeter
- Unable to determine between MACES CR. 1 and MACES CR. 2
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 Kentucky in 20056
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gilberts Creek Fire | 2,537 | Nov 13, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,200 | Nov 12, 2005 | |
| Town Mtn Fire | 1,500 | Nov 28, 2005 | Human |
| Morris Fork Fire | 1,500 | Nov 28, 2005 | Human |
| Dry Fork Fire | 1,154 | Nov 13, 2005 | |
| Highsplint Fire | 673 | Nov 25, 2005 |
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.