Pioneer Fire
The Pioneer Fire burned 1,167 acres in Bayfield County, Wisconsin, in 2007. It was discovered on April 29, 2007, and contained on May 9, 2007. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 1,167 acres
- Discovered
- April 29, 2007
- Contained
- May 9, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,074 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.254, -91.192.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,167 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,074 acres
- Discovered
- April 29, 2007, 1:50 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 9, 2007, 5:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Wisconsin
- County
- Bayfield County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WI4624209117320070429
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1456054
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.