Cripple Chinook Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,035 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.122, -89.077.

Reported final size

5,717 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

6,035 acres

Discovered

October 6, 2010, 5:06 p.m. local time

Contained

November 16, 2010, 8:15 a.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Mississippi

County

Perry County

Land ownership at origin

Forest Service

Reporting unit

National Forests in Mississippi

Agency

Forest Service

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

MS3111308909720101006

MTBS assessment

Initial (SS)

Fire occurrence record

FS-1492696

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 26, from October 12, 2010 to December 14, 2010. 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.

Most structures threatened at once

350

Injuries

1

Most personnel assigned

20 on October 18, 2010

Most aircraft assigned

4

Cost reported by the teams

$300,000, in 2010 dollars

Cause on the reports

Human

Primary fuel model reported

Timber (Grass and Understory)

Suppression strategy reported

Full suppression

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,120 acres, on October 16, 2010.

Every fire of 2010 Mississippi fire history

• New Augusta, MS6 miles northeast of the fire
• Richton, MS18 miles northeast of the fire
• Wiggins, MS19 miles south of the fire
• Petal, MS19 miles northwest of the fire
• Hattiesburg, MS19 miles northwest of the fire
• Purvis, MS20 miles west of the fire

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.