Fort Dix Range 1-14 Fire
The Fort Dix Range 1-14 Fire burned 2,240 acres in Burlington County, New Jersey, in 2010. It was discovered on July 7, 2010, and contained on July 11, 2010. MTBS dates its ignition to July 8, 2010.
- Size
- 2,240 acres
- Discovered
- July 7, 2010
- Contained
- July 11, 2010
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,622 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.019, -74.526.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,240 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,622 acres
- Discovered
- July 7, 2010, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 8, 2010
- Contained
- July 11, 2010, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- New Jersey
- County
- Burlington County
- Reporting unit
- New Jersey Forest Fire Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NJ4001407452720100708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2010_NJ-NJS-B070709
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.