Quarry Fire
The Quarry Fire burned 1,140 acres in Bedford County, Virginia, in 2006. It was discovered on March 4, 2006, and contained on March 25, 2006. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,140 acres
- Discovered
- March 4, 2006
- Contained
- March 25, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,170 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.432, -79.815.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,140 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,170 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,151 acres
- Discovered
- March 4, 2006, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 25, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Bedford County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- VAVAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2006-NCBRP-000005
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3740607979020060304
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1445651
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bull Mountain Fire | 3,696 | May 23, 2006 | Natural |
| 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 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.