Wildfires of 2007

Longbranch-Robeson Complex

2007Robeson County, North CarolinaWildfire

The Longbranch-Robeson Complex burned 200 acres in Robeson County, North Carolina, in 2007. It was discovered on August 8, 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to July 24, 2007.

Size
200 acres
Discovered
August 8, 2007
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,945 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.526, -78.977.

The record

Reported final size
200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,945 acres
Discovered
August 8, 2007
Ignition (MTBS)
July 24, 2007
Cause
Undetermined
State
North Carolina
County
Robeson County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
North Carolina Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Part of
Longbranch/Robeson Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NC3454307905620070724
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-NC0395-05521

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 North Carolina in 20078

FireAcresStartCause
Linville Complex (Dobson Knob) Fire5,015Jun 8, 2007Natural
Training Fire4,265Apr 13, 2007
3 4 1 Rumleys Marsh Fy 07 Fire3,557Feb 24, 2007
Unnamed Fire1,615Mar 25, 2007
Unnamed Fire1,607Mar 5, 2007
Unnamed Fire1,198Mar 13, 2007
East Pender Complex1,100Apr 23, 2007
Koehring Slop Wildfire Fire886Mar 13, 2007Human

Every fire of 2007 North Carolina 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.