Lynch Road Fire
The Lynch Road Fire burned 2,012 acres in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 2008. It was discovered on February 10, 2008.
- Size
- 2,012 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,823 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.225, -77.932.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,012 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,823 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Halifax County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- North Carolina Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NC3622707791220080210
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-NC0414-00848
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Evans Road Fire | 41,060 | Jun 3, 2008 | Natural |
| Mcpherson Road Fire | 2,100 | Feb 10, 2008 | |
| Lizzy Henry Fire | 2,084 | Apr 19, 2008 | |
| Sunrise Fire | 2,005 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Highway 1 Fire | 1,778 | Feb 10, 2008 | |
| Sycamore Shores Fire | 1,521 | Feb 10, 2008 | |
| Edna Buck Road Fire | 1,154 | Mar 26, 2008 |
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.