Mill Creek Fire
The Mill Creek Fire burned 3,000 acres in Oklahoma, in 2005. It was discovered on December 27, 2005, and contained on December 29, 2005.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- December 27, 2005
- Contained
- December 29, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,277 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.217, -96.697.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,277 acres
- Discovered
- December 27, 2005, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 29, 2005, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Tishomingo National Fish Hatcery
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Other fire reports inside the burned area
- Greenwood
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3437909675320051227
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2005OKTMRB96D
- Note on the perimeter
- Extended assessment used due to lack of available scenes
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 Oklahoma in 200512
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Velma Complex | 26,000 | Nov 27, 2005 | |
| Cabiness Fire | 17,299 | Nov 8, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 15,408 | Apr 3, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,952 | Mar 18, 2005 | |
| Texanna Road Fire | 10,880 | Nov 27, 2005 | |
| Achille Fire | 10,000 | Dec 29, 2005 | Human |
| Wewoka Creek Fire | 9,600 | Dec 26, 2005 | Human |
| Bear Den Fire | 9,429 | Nov 27, 2005 | Human |
| Dripping Spring Fire | 9,080 | Nov 27, 2005 | Human |
| Proctor Fire | 7,680 | Nov 17, 2005 | Human |
| Antioch Fire | 7,000 | Nov 27, 2005 | Human |
| Pine Springs Fire | 6,400 | Dec 27, 2005 | Human |
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.