Wildfires of 2005

Wolf Mtn Fire

2005Ripley County, MissouriWildfire

The Wolf Mtn Fire burned 7.3 acres in Ripley County, Missouri, in 2005. It was discovered on March 11, 2005, and contained on March 11, 2005. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
7 acres
Discovered
March 11, 2005
Contained
March 11, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,799 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.631, -91.086.

The record

Reported final size
7 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,799 acres
Discovered
March 11, 2005, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
March 11, 2005, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Missouri
County
Ripley County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Mark Twain National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MO3662609111220050311
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FS-1424660

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
Mckenzie Hill Fire3,422Apr 4, 2005
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

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.