Pentecost Fire
The Pentecost Fire burned 3,000 acres in Cherokee County, Alabama, in 2007. It was discovered on March 12, 2007, and contained on March 15, 2007. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 12, 2007
- Contained
- March 15, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,092 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.006, -85.675.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,092 acres
- Discovered
- March 12, 2007, 8:26 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 15, 2007, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Cherokee County
- Reporting unit
- Alabama Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AL3402408567620070312
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ALS-HSV-20070312-002
- Note on the perimeter
- Hard to delineate fire perimeter
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 Alabama in 20073
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou Lb Fire | 1,209 | Mar 25, 2007 | Human |
| Stevenson Fire | 1,010 | Mar 24, 2007 | Human |
| Wildcat Branch Wfire Fire | 569 | Mar 5, 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.