Wildfires of 2006

Twelth Street Fire

2006Harvey County, KansasWildfire

The Twelth Street Fire burned 8,800 acres in Harvey County, Kansas, in 2006. It was discovered on February 9, 2006, and contained on February 15, 2006.

Size
8,800 acres
Discovered
February 9, 2006
Contained
February 15, 2006
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,277 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.065, -97.675.

The record

Reported final size
8,800 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,277 acres
Discovered
February 9, 2006, 2:30 p.m. local time
Contained
February 15, 2006, 10:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Kansas
County
Harvey County
Land ownership at origin
County
Reporting unit
Kansas Counties
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
KS3808509764620060209
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2006_KS-KSX-00094

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 Kansas in 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Fire10,700Mar 8, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire9,700Mar 12, 2006Human
Hodgeman West Fire6,400Mar 15, 2006Human
Obee Fire6,000Mar 30, 2006
Unnamed Fire5,368Apr 13, 2006
Unnamed Fire4,480Mar 15, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire3,500May 25, 2006
Mile 208 Fire3,200Jul 30, 2006Human
Maple City Fire3,000Mar 1, 2006Human
Steeler Fire2,380Feb 5, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire2,010Mar 13, 2006
Mcdowell Fire2,000Apr 21, 2006Human

Every fire of 2006 Kansas fire history

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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.