Wildfires of 2005

Mckenzie Hill Fire

2005Reynolds County, MissouriWildfire

The Mckenzie Hill Fire burned 3,422 acres in Reynolds County, Missouri, in 2005. It was discovered on April 4, 2005, and contained on April 6, 2005.

Size
3,422 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2005
Contained
April 6, 2005
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,724 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.199, -90.837.

The record

Reported final size
3,422 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,724 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2005, 10:45 a.m. local time
Contained
April 6, 2005, 5:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Missouri
County
Reynolds County
Reporting unit
Missouri Department of Conservation
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MO3722009083720050404
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2005-MO-MOS-000128-2

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 Missouri in 20056

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire3,256Apr 14, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,830Mar 20, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,751Apr 14, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,592Mar 20, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,485Apr 14, 2005
Wolf Mtn Fire7Mar 11, 2005Human

Every fire of 2005 Missouri fire history

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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.