Hwy 349 Fire
The Hwy 349 Fire burned 2,500 acres in Martin County, Texas, in 2006. It was discovered on June 20, 2006, and contained on June 20, 2006. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 2006
- Contained
- June 20, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,270 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.170, -102.192.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,270 acres
- Discovered
- June 20, 2006, 2:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 20, 2006, 2:50 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Martin County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3217110219220060620
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX02230706-1093
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: 6, from June 20, 2006 to June 24, 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
- 5
- Most personnel assigned
- 57 on June 20, 2006
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jun 20, 2006 | 2,200 | |
| Jun 21, 2006 | 2,200 | 0 |
| Jun 22, 2006 | 2,200 | 0 |
| Jun 23, 2006 | 2,200 | 0 |
| Jun 24, 2006 | 2,200 | 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.