Windmill Road Fire
The Windmill Road Fire burned 2,195 acres in Crockett County, Texas, in 2008. It was discovered on June 16, 2008, and contained on June 25, 2008. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,195 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2008
- Contained
- June 25, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,639 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.387, -101.038.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,195 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,639 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2008, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 25, 2008, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Texas
- County
- Crockett County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3039510105220080616
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX0483-73597
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 Texas in 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Glass Fire | 220,000 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Huckabee Fire | 98,168 | Apr 30, 2008 | Human |
| Highway 322 Fire | 67,500 | Mar 14, 2008 | Human |
| Porter Fire | 51,400 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Hughes Ranch Fire | 43,241 | Jun 4, 2008 | Human |
| Eighty-Two Fire | 33,037 | Mar 14, 2008 | |
| Snyder Complex | 28,625 | Feb 23, 2008 | Human |
| Burns Ranch Fire | 25,600 | Mar 18, 2008 | Human |
| Cathedral Fire | 23,000 | Apr 24, 2008 | Natural |
| Silver Fire | 20,200 | Feb 25, 2008 | Human |
| Cotulla Fire | 19,000 | Feb 2, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 18,000 | Feb 25, 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.