Brown Fire
The Brown Fire burned 2,405 acres in Slope County, North Dakota, in 2008. It was discovered on July 23, 2008, and contained on July 27, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,405 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 2008
- Contained
- July 27, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,518 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.528, -103.875.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,405 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,518 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,405 acres
- Discovered
- July 23, 2008, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 27, 2008, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- North Dakota
- County
- Slope County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Dakota Prairie National Grasslands
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NDDPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2008-NDDPF-000028
- MTBS fire identifier
- ND4652510387220080723
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1470279
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Lightning caused fire
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 North Dakota in 20089
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Woodbury Fire | 2,000 | Mar 3, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,900 | Apr 14, 2008 | Human |
| Pool 326 Fire | 1,701 | Apr 18, 2008 | |
| Grader Fire | 1,680 | Apr 7, 2008 | Human |
| Klitzke Fire | 1,500 | Apr 19, 2008 | Human |
| Sprout Fire | 1,200 | Apr 3, 2008 | Human |
| Swartwout Fire | 1,100 | Apr 8, 2008 | Human |
| Heinke Fire | 1,000 | Apr 3, 2008 | Human |
| Colin Conley Fire | 1,000 | May 17, 2008 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.