Wildfires of 2010

Camp Claiborne Fire

2010Rapides Parish, LouisianaWildfire

The Camp Claiborne Fire burned 1,633 acres in Rapides Parish, Louisiana, in 2010. It was discovered on March 14, 2010, and contained on March 14, 2010. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,633 acres
Discovered
March 14, 2010
Contained
March 14, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,658 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.115, -92.578.

The record

Reported final size
1,633 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,658 acres
Discovered
March 14, 2010, 12:30 p.m. local time
Contained
March 14, 2010, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Louisiana
County
Rapides Parish
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Kisatchie National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3113009256720100314
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-1484814

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 Louisiana in 20106

FireAcresStartCause
Cicada Fire6,259Aug 23, 2010Natural
Wrangler Fire4,363Oct 13, 2010Natural
Miami Fire2,000Jun 20, 2010Natural
Mosquito Fire1,421Jul 26, 2010Natural
Big Creek Fire1,295Oct 2, 2010Human
Range 40 Fire600Oct 1, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Louisiana fire history

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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.