ROSCOMMON4 Fire
The ROSCOMMON4 Fire burned 1,557 acres in Roscommon County, Michigan, in 2005. It was discovered on April 16, 2005. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,557 acres
- Discovered
- April 16, 2005
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,108 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.216, -84.631.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,557 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,108 acres
- Discovered
- April 16, 2005
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Roscommon County
- Reporting unit
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MI4423508460920050416
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MI05143004
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.
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.