Atsion Fire
The Atsion Fire burned 2,450 acres in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 2007. It was discovered on August 3, 2007, and contained on August 20, 2007.
- Size
- 2,450 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 2007
- Contained
- August 20, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,701 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.719, -74.703.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,450 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,701 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 2007, 2:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 20, 2007, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Burlington County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- New Jersey Forest Fire Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NJ3972007471420070803
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2007_NJ-NJS-B072801
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 New Jersey in 20071
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Warren Grove Fire | 17,050 | May 15, 2007 | 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.