Four Mile Fire
The Four Mile Fire burned 1,345 acres in Crawford County, Michigan, in 2008. It was discovered on April 24, 2008, and contained on April 25, 2008. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 1,345 acres
- Discovered
- April 24, 2008
- Contained
- April 25, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,349 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.626, -84.691.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,345 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,349 acres
- Discovered
- April 24, 2008, 3:17 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 25, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Crawford County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MI4464108471520080424
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2008MIDNR-2008200006
- Note on the perimeter
- Req NAIP 1m img to delineate around ag and town / freeway through middle of 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.
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.