Wildfires of 2009

Unnamed Fire

2009Scioto County, OhioWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,865 acres in Scioto County, Ohio, in 2009. It was discovered on April 24, 2009, and contained on May 29, 2009. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
2,865 acres
Discovered
April 24, 2009
Contained
May 29, 2009
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,259 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.684, -83.197.

The record

Reported final size
2,865 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,259 acres
Discovered
April 24, 2009, 6:00 p.m. local time
Contained
May 29, 2009, 1:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Ohio
County
Scioto County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Ohio Department of Natural Resources
Agency
State or local agency
Part of
Shawnee Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OH3869908322420090424
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2009_OH-OHS-090001

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.