Kneeknocker Swamp Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,091 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.229, -81.998.

Reported final size

1,778 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

2,091 acres

Discovered

April 16, 2007, 5:00 p.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Georgia

County

Brantley County

Reporting unit

Georgia Forestry Commission

Agency

State or local agency

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

GA3123108201520070416

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

ICS209_2007_GA-GAS-070005

Note on the perimeter

Some clearcut areas.

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 50, from April 17, 2007 to June 27, 2007. 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

13 (3 residences, 10 other)

Structures damaged

4 (2 residences, 2 other)

Most structures threatened at once

215

Injuries

1

Most personnel assigned

113 on May 17, 2007

People evacuated, at the most

Evacuations were reported; no count was filed

Cost reported by the teams

$1.9 million, in 2007 dollars

Cause on the reports

Human

Primary fuel model reported

Southern Rough

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 471 acres, on April 26, 2007.

Every fire of 2007 Georgia fire history

• Nahunta, GA2 miles southeast of the fire
• Blackshear, GA15 miles west of the fire
• Sunnyside, GA20 miles west of the fire
• Waycross, GA21 miles west of the fire
• Deenwood, GA22 miles west of the fire
• Woodbine, GA24 miles southeast of the 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.