Steeler Fire
The Steeler Fire burned 2,380 acres in Kansas, in 2006. It was discovered on February 5, 2006, and contained on February 7, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism. Incident teams reported 1 structure destroyed.
- Size
- 2,380 acres
- Discovered
- February 5, 2006
- Contained
- February 7, 2006
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,474 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.074, -101.710.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,380 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,474 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,380 acres
- Discovered
- February 5, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- February 7, 2006, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Kansas
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Pike and San Isabel National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- KSPSF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3705910169620060205
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1433626
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Human Caused; Arson. Investigation Pending.CO-PSF-0081
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: 4, from February 6, 2006 to February 8, 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.
- Structures destroyed
- 1
- Most structures threatened at once
- 8
- Most personnel assigned
- 38 on February 6, 2006
- Cost reported by the teams
- $14,000, in 2006 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Short Grass (1 foot)
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 6, 2006 | 2,380 | |
| Feb 7, 2006 | 2,380 | 0 |
| Feb 8, 2006 | 2,380 | 0 |
Other large fires in Kansas in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fire | 10,700 | Mar 8, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,700 | Mar 12, 2006 | Human |
| Twelth Street Fire | 8,800 | Feb 9, 2006 | |
| Hodgeman West Fire | 6,400 | Mar 15, 2006 | Human |
| Obee Fire | 6,000 | Mar 30, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,368 | Apr 13, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,480 | Mar 15, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,500 | May 25, 2006 | |
| Mile 208 Fire | 3,200 | Jul 30, 2006 | Human |
| Maple City Fire | 3,000 | Mar 1, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,010 | Mar 13, 2006 | |
| Mcdowell Fire | 2,000 | Apr 21, 2006 | Human |
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. 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.