Wildfires of 2008

Pool 326 Fire

2008North DakotaOther fire

The Pool 326 Fire burned 1,701 acres in North Dakota, in 2008. It was discovered on April 18, 2008, and contained on April 21, 2008.

Size
1,701 acres
Discovered
April 18, 2008
Contained
April 21, 2008
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,805 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.602, -100.648.

The record

Reported final size
1,701 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,805 acres
Discovered
April 18, 2008, 7:45 p.m. local time
Contained
April 21, 2008, 5:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
North Dakota
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
ND4860710067520080418
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2008NDJCRD5P7
Note on the perimeter
Too much mask applied. No good pre-image for better offset.

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 Dakota in 20089

FireAcresStartCause
Brown Fire2,405Jul 23, 2008Natural
Woodbury Fire2,000Mar 3, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire1,900Apr 14, 2008Human
Grader Fire1,680Apr 7, 2008Human
Klitzke Fire1,500Apr 19, 2008Human
Sprout Fire1,200Apr 3, 2008Human
Swartwout Fire1,100Apr 8, 2008Human
Heinke Fire1,000Apr 3, 2008Human
Colin Conley Fire1,000May 17, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 North Dakota 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.