Bowers City Fire
The Bowers City Fire burned 5,000 acres in Gray County, Texas, in 2006. It was discovered on April 6, 2006. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 6, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,976 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.386, -100.974.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,976 acres
- Discovered
- April 6, 2006
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Gray County
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3540910088220060406
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX02240706-46822
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from April 6, 2006 to April 9, 2006. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 30
- Most personnel assigned
- 14 on April 6, 2006
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 6, 2006 | 5,000 | |
| Apr 8, 2006 | 5,000 | |
| Apr 9, 2006 | 5,000 | 0 |
Other large fires in Texas in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Amarillo Complex | 479,549 | Mar 12, 2006 | Human |
| Rocker B Fire | 42,110 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Ringgold Fire | 41,000 | Jan 1, 2006 | |
| Buckle L 2 Fire | 40,000 | Mar 12, 2006 | Human |
| Cole Fire | 39,812 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Carbon Fire | 35,300 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Canadian Fire | 25,000 | Jun 15, 2006 | Natural |
| Fain Plant Fire | 23,827 | Apr 6, 2006 | Human |
| Hardwick Fire | 23,000 | Jan 1, 2006 | Human |
| Sweetwater Dobson Fire | 21,400 | Apr 7, 2006 | Human |
| Locust Grove Fire | 18,000 | Apr 11, 2006 | Human |
| Oldham Boys Ranch Fire | 13,000 | Mar 10, 2006 | 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.