Reese Lane Fire
The Reese Lane Fire burned 1,804 acres in Colorado County, Texas, in 2009. It was discovered on July 4, 2009, and contained on July 8, 2009. MTBS dates its ignition to July 5, 2009. The cause was recorded as fireworks. Incident teams reported 7 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 1,804 acres
- Discovered
- July 4, 2009
- Contained
- July 8, 2009
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 7
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,887 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.728, -96.496.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,804 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,887 acres
- Discovered
- July 4, 2009, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 5, 2009
- Contained
- July 8, 2009, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Fireworks
- State
- Texas
- County
- Colorado County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX2976609647820090705
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-TX2009-75417
- Note on the perimeter
- Poor imagery availability lots of cloud cover.
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: 4, from July 5, 2009 to July 10, 2009. 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
- 7 (1 residence, 6 other)
- Most structures threatened at once
- 26
- Most personnel assigned
- 52 on July 7, 2009
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 302 acres, on July 7, 2009.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 5, 2009 | 1,200 | |
| Jul 6, 2009 | 1,500 | +300 |
| Jul 7, 2009 | 1,802 | +302 |
| Jul 10, 2009 | 1,804 |
Other large fires in Texas in 200912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Montague County Complex | 31,419 | Apr 9, 2009 | Human |
| April 9th Complex 1 Fire | 27,876 | Apr 9, 2009 | |
| Two Mile Hill Complex | 21,525 | Apr 9, 2009 | Human |
| Cedar Mountain Fire | 18,360 | Apr 7, 2009 | Human |
| April 9th Complex 2 Fire | 16,444 | Apr 9, 2009 | Human |
| Black Fire | 16,000 | Apr 9, 2009 | Human |
| Magic City Fire | 15,000 | Apr 4, 2009 | Human |
| Saucita Creek Ranch Complex | 14,840 | Apr 23, 2009 | Natural |
| Elephant Mountain Fire | 10,135 | Apr 23, 2009 | Natural |
| Mcelroy Fire | 8,382 | Apr 23, 2009 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,000 | Apr 1, 2009 | Human |
| Turtle Fire | 7,157 | Apr 2, 2009 | 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. 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.