Wildfires of 2008

Edna Buck Road Fire

2008New Hanover County, North CarolinaWildfire

The Edna Buck Road Fire burned 1,154 acres in New Hanover County, North Carolina, in 2008. It was discovered on March 26, 2008.

Size
1,154 acres
Discovered
March 26, 2008
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,259 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.339, -77.851.

The record

Reported final size
1,154 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,259 acres
Discovered
March 26, 2008
Cause
Undetermined
State
North Carolina
County
New Hanover County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
North Carolina Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NC3435507783920080326
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-NC0414-01911

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 Carolina in 20087

FireAcresStartCause
Evans Road Fire41,060Jun 3, 2008Natural
Mcpherson Road Fire2,100Feb 10, 2008
Lizzy Henry Fire2,084Apr 19, 2008
Lynch Road Fire2,012Feb 10, 2008
Sunrise Fire2,005Apr 18, 2008Human
Highway 1 Fire1,778Feb 10, 2008
Sycamore Shores Fire1,521Feb 10, 2008

Every fire of 2008 North Carolina 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.