Thick Creek Fire
The Thick Creek Fire burned 500 acres in Mississippi, in 2007. It was discovered on February 27, 2007. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 500 acres
- Discovered
- February 27, 2007
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,961 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.214, -89.618.
The record
- Reported final size
- 500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,961 acres
- Discovered
- February 27, 2007
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Mississippi
- Reporting unit
- Mississippi Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3120508960420070227
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- STATE_MS_70057
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 Mississippi in 20072
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Witchdance East Fire | 2,286 | Feb 22, 2007 | |
| Trace Unit West 2 Fire | 1,173 | Feb 27, 2007 |
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.