Pocahontas Road Fire
The Pocahontas Road Fire burned 1,250 acres in Brunswick County, Virginia, in 2008. It was discovered on February 10, 2008. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,250 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,145 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.822, -77.649.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,250 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,145 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Brunswick County
- Reporting unit
- Virginia Department of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- VA3681907764720080210
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2008VADFVA0453-BRU001752
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 Virginia in 20089
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| South 1 Fire | 4,884 | Jun 9, 2008 | Human |
| St Marys Fire | 4,505 | Mar 25, 2008 | Human |
| Angel Fire | 3,990 | Feb 10, 2008 | Human |
| Old Stage Road Fire | 2,850 | Feb 10, 2008 | Human |
| Little Cuba Fire | 2,738 | Feb 10, 2008 | Human |
| Blackhorse Fire | 1,550 | Feb 8, 2008 | Human |
| Thraser Hill Fire | 1,300 | Feb 10, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Totiers Ferry Fire | 1,036 | Feb 10, 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.