Sycamore Shores Fire
The Sycamore Shores Fire burned 1,521 acres in Halifax County, North Carolina, in 2008. It was discovered on February 10, 2008. Incident teams reported 2 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 1,521 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Structures destroyed
- 2
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,045 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.278, -77.523.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,521 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,045 acres
- Discovered
- February 10, 2008
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Halifax County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- North Carolina Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NC3629407752720080210
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-NC0414-00846
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: 2. 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
- 2
- Most structures threatened at once
- 7
- Most personnel assigned
- 44 on February 12, 2008
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Hardwood Litter
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
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 | |
| Lynch Road Fire | 2,012 | Feb 10, 2008 | |
| Sunrise Fire | 2,005 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Highway 1 Fire | 1,778 | 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. 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.