Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,855 acres in Ulster County, New York, in 2008. It was discovered on April 17, 2008, and contained on April 17, 2008. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 2,855 acres
- Discovered
- April 17, 2008
- Contained
- April 17, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,223 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.815, -74.236.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,855 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,223 acres
- Discovered
- April 17, 2008, 12:35 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 17, 2008, 12:35 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- New York
- County
- Ulster County
- Reporting unit
- Fire Department of New York
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NY4172807427820080417
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-NY-NY5601-2008-19574
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.
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.