Bull Mountain Fire
The Bull Mountain Fire burned 3,696 acres in Patrick County, Virginia, in 2006. It was discovered on May 23, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to April 14, 2006. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,696 acres
- Discovered
- May 23, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,297 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.721, -80.205.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,696 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,297 acres
- Discovered
- May 23, 2006
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 14, 2006
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Patrick County
- Reporting unit
- Virginia Department of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3670708019820060414
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2006VADFVA01390606-PAT002350
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 Virginia in 20065
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peavine Complex | 2,871 | Dec 10, 2006 | Human |
| Cardinal Fire | 1,935 | Apr 30, 2006 | Human |
| Lewis Mountain Fire | 1,150 | Apr 4, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,142 | Oct 1, 2006 | |
| Quarry Fire | 1,140 | Mar 4, 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.