Camp Fire
The Camp Fire burned 1,500 acres in Pulaski County, Arkansas, in 2010. It was discovered on October 11, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,500 acres
- Discovered
- October 11, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,769 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.887, -92.292.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,769 acres
- Discovered
- October 11, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Pulaski County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Arkansas Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3486909227320101011
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- AR-2010-2833
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 Arkansas in 20102
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drew Fire | 1,013 | Sep 18, 2010 | Human |
| Van Buren Fire | 1,004 | Nov 6, 2010 | 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.