Wildfires of 2008

Unnamed Fire

2008Campbell County, TennesseeWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,501 acres in Campbell County, Tennessee, in 2008. It was discovered on April 16, 2008, and contained on April 18, 2008. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.

Size
1,501 acres
Discovered
April 16, 2008
Contained
April 18, 2008
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,398 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.409, -84.106.

The record

Reported final size
1,501 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,398 acres
Discovered
April 16, 2008, 1:00 p.m. local time
Contained
April 18, 2008, 12:48 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
State
Tennessee
County
Campbell County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Tennessee Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TN3640908410620080416
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2008TNFDTN0402-4456

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 Tennessee in 20083

FireAcresStartCause
Old 15th Fire2,000Aug 20, 2008Natural
Lone Oak Fire1,500May 7, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire1,441Apr 17, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 Tennessee fire history

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.