Poole Fire
The Poole Fire burned 1,528 acres in Dallam County, Texas, in 2007. It was discovered on March 14, 2007. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 1,528 acres
- Discovered
- March 14, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,637 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.410, -102.973.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,528 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,637 acres
- Discovered
- March 14, 2007
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Texas
- County
- Dallam County
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3640910297220070314
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX02240707-90149
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 Texas in 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wf Bill White Easement Ops Fire | 5,976 | Mar 3, 2007 | |
| Big Fire | 5,160 | Apr 21, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,500 | Mar 10, 2007 | Natural |
| Hudspeth Ranch Fire | 3,555 | Nov 16, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,930 | Feb 27, 2007 | |
| River Road Fire | 2,838 | Dec 2, 2007 | Human |
| Art Fire | 2,800 | Dec 31, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,538 | Nov 20, 2007 | |
| Las Brisas Fire | 2,500 | Dec 26, 2007 | Human |
| Wild Hog Fire | 2,300 | Nov 19, 2007 | Human |
| RX Texas Point West 07 Fire | 2,293 | Nov 27, 2007 | |
| Willow City Fire | 2,000 | Dec 22, 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.