Friar Fire
The Friar Fire burned 1,070 acres in Amherst County, Virginia, in 2007. It was discovered on April 24, 2007, and contained on April 30, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to April 23, 2007. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,070 acres
- Discovered
- April 24, 2007
- Contained
- April 30, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 908 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.770, -79.961.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,070 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 908 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,070 acres
- Discovered
- April 24, 2007, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 23, 2007
- Contained
- April 30, 2007, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Amherst County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- VAVAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3776807911320070423
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1448344
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- 42.6 acres on Private Land Unified Command with VDOF
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 20072
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Drawn Fire | 1,153 | ||
| Potts Fire | 1,050 | Apr 22, 2007 | 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.