Wildfires of 2009

Stuart Fire

2009Pittsburg County, OklahomaWildfire

The Stuart Fire burned 1,280 acres in Pittsburg County, Oklahoma, in 2009. It was discovered on April 7, 2009, and contained on April 8, 2009. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,280 acres
Discovered
April 7, 2009
Contained
April 8, 2009
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,089 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.776, -96.137.

The record

Reported final size
1,280 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,089 acres
Discovered
April 7, 2009, 3:12 p.m. local time
Contained
April 8, 2009, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oklahoma
County
Pittsburg County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Oklahoma Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3482409614520090407
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2009_OK-ECU-09-40015

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 Oklahoma in 200912

FireAcresStartCause
Loco-Healdton Fire56,688Apr 9, 2009
Putnam Fire52,790Mar 5, 2009
Chester Fire41,497Jul 10, 2009
Ratcliff City-Tatums Fire23,824Apr 9, 2009
Cleo Fire11,520Apr 4, 2009Human
Peach Orchard Fire10,216Mar 17, 2009Human
Mulhall-Payne County Fire8,600Apr 9, 2009
Brushy Mountain Fire8,000Apr 9, 2009Human
Unnamed Fire6,955Jan 20, 2009
Lindsay Fire6,766Apr 9, 2009Human
Pretty Penny Fire6,000Mar 19, 2009Human
Unnamed Fire4,017Jan 20, 2009

Every fire of 2009 Oklahoma 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.