Parker Fire
The Parker Fire burned 5,000 acres in Andrews County, Texas, in 2008. It was discovered on April 10, 2008, and contained on April 11, 2008. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use. Incident teams reported 8 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 10, 2008
- Contained
- April 11, 2008
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 8
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,848 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.293, -102.570.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,848 acres
- Discovered
- April 10, 2008, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 11, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Texas
- County
- Andrews County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3227610249020080410
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX0483-73381
- Note on the perimeter
- Adjacent fire burned earlier
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from April 10, 2008 to April 14, 2008. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 8 (1 residence, 2 commercial, 5 other)
- Most structures threatened at once
- 62
- Most personnel assigned
- 24 on April 10, 2008
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Primary fuel model reported
- Dormant Brush, Hardwood Slash
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Apr 10, 2008 | 5,000 | |
| Apr 11, 2008 | 5,000 | 0 |
| Apr 12, 2008 | 5,000 | 0 |
| Apr 13, 2008 | 5,000 | 0 |
| Apr 14, 2008 | 5,000 | 0 |
Other large fires in Texas in 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Fire | 220,000 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Huckabee Fire | 98,168 | Apr 30, 2008 | Human |
| Highway 322 Fire | 67,500 | Mar 14, 2008 | Human |
| Porter Fire | 51,400 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Hughes Ranch Fire | 43,241 | Jun 4, 2008 | Human |
| Eighty-Two Fire | 33,037 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Snyder Complex | 28,625 | Feb 23, 2008 | Human |
| Burns Ranch Fire | 25,600 | Mar 18, 2008 | Human |
| Cathedral Fire | 23,000 | Apr 24, 2008 | Natural |
| Silver Fire | 20,200 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Cotulla Fire | 19,000 | Feb 2, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 18,000 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.