Wildfires of 2010

Dry Marsh Fire

2010New YorkWildfire

The Dry Marsh Fire burned 694 acres in New York, in 2010. It was discovered on April 4, 2010, and contained on April 23, 2010.

Size
694 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2010
Contained
April 23, 2010
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,017 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.986, -76.768.

The record

Reported final size
694 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,017 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2010, 3:30 a.m. local time
Contained
April 23, 2010, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
New York
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NY4298007675120100404
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2010NYMZRFA3D

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.