L 2 Fb H 2 G 2 Fire
The L 2 Fb H 2 G 2 Fire burned 651 acres in Maryland, in 2006. It was discovered on January 26, 2006, and contained on January 27, 2006. MTBS dates its ignition to March 7, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 651 acres
- Discovered
- January 26, 2006
- Contained
- January 27, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,142 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.368, -76.059.
The record
- Reported final size
- 651 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,142 acres
- Discovered
- January 26, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 7, 2006
- Contained
- January 27, 2006, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Maryland
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MD3839607603320060307
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2006MDBWRCBK7
- Note on the perimeter
- A pre-fire image used as a perimeter image to evaluate pre and post fire condition.
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: 2. 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.
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
Other large fires in Maryland in 20061
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,596 | Jan 26, 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.