Guinea Marsh Fire
The Guinea Marsh Fire burned 3,208 acres in Maryland, in 2007. It was discovered on February 10, 2007, and contained on February 13, 2007. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 3,208 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2007
- Contained
- February 13, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,836 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.401, -75.971.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,208 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,836 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2007, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- February 13, 2007, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Maryland
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MD3837307596520070210
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2007MDBWRC9MA
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire Perimenter includes the Tyler Fire. Emergent Herbaceous Wetland
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.
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.