Wildfires of 2007

Warren Grove Fire

2007New JerseyWildfire

The Warren Grove Fire burned 17,050 acres in New Jersey, in 2007. It was discovered on May 15, 2007, and contained on May 21, 2007. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
17,050 acres
Discovered
May 15, 2007
Contained
May 21, 2007
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 15,304 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.708, -74.310.

The record

Reported final size
17,050 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
15,304 acres
Discovered
May 15, 2007, 4:00 p.m. local time
Contained
May 21, 2007, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
New Jersey
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NJ3969707434220070515
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2007NJERRDFR2

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 New Jersey in 20071

FireAcresStartCause
Atsion Fire2,450Aug 3, 2007

Every fire of 2007 New Jersey 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.