Campground Fire
The Campground Fire burned 500 acres in Mississippi, in 2006. It was discovered on March 5, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 500 acres
- Discovered
- March 5, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,278 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.580, -88.748.
The record
- Reported final size
- 500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,278 acres
- Discovered
- March 5, 2006
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Mississippi
- Reporting unit
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3059008875420060305
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- STATE_MS_65681
- Note on the perimeter
- Best scenes for DNBR
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 Mississippi in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kiln (Bayou Bacon) Fire | 3,708 | Jun 10, 2006 | Human |
| Sandy Fox Fire | 3,000 | Mar 9, 2006 | Human |
| Witchdce W Fire | 2,844 | Mar 3, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,509 | Mar 2, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,365 | Mar 26, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,179 | Mar 3, 2006 | |
| Sause Fire | 1,824 | Jun 3, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,686 | Mar 3, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,594 | Mar 3, 2006 | |
| Trace Unit 2 Fire | 1,528 | Mar 16, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,507 | Mar 16, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,485 | Mar 27, 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.