Kiln (Bayou Bacon) Fire
The Kiln (Bayou Bacon) Fire burned 3,708 acres in Hancock County, Mississippi, in 2006. It was discovered on June 10, 2006, and contained on June 14, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 3,708 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2006
- Contained
- June 14, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,583 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.420, -89.497.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,708 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,583 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2006, 10:11 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 14, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Hancock County
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Mississippi
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3042808950620060610
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1446969
- Note on the perimeter
- Grass shrub and evergreen forest
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: 1. 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
- 8
- Most personnel assigned
- 32 on June 12, 2006
- Most aircraft assigned
- 3
- Cost reported by the teams
- $42,000, in 2006 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Southern Rough
Other large fires in Mississippi in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| White Sands Fire | 1,069 | Mar 5, 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.