Wildfires of 2010

Hutchinson Rd Fire

2010Cherokee County, OklahomaWildfire

The Hutchinson Rd Fire burned 3,200 acres in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, in 2010. It was discovered on December 22, 2010. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
3,200 acres
Discovered
December 22, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,193 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.748, -95.083.

The record

Reported final size
3,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,193 acres
Discovered
December 22, 2010, 12:49 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oklahoma
County
Cherokee County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Oklahoma Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3575009507720101222
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2010_OK-NEU-10-30620

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.

From the incident teams’ reports

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3. 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 personnel assigned
6 on December 23, 2010
Cost reported by the teams
$7,500, in 2010 dollars
Cause on the reports
Human
Primary fuel model reported
Hardwood Litter
Suppression strategy reported
Full suppression

Other large fires in Oklahoma in 201012

FireAcresStartCause
Persimmon Ridge Rd Fire3,200Dec 20, 2010Human
North Woodward Fire3,000Apr 9, 2010Human
Deer Lake Fire2,613Mar 30, 2010Human
County Line Fire2,300Sep 3, 2010Human
North Mountain Fire2,265Aug 13, 2010Human
Tallant Hill Fire2,180Mar 30, 2010Human
Gulf Fire1,659Nov 28, 2010Human
Pistol Pete Fire1,621Mar 19, 2010Human
Airstream Fire1,567Mar 19, 2010Human
Red Rooster Fire1,500Aug 26, 2010Human
Lookout Fire1,475Mar 4, 2010Human
No Torch Fire1,376Mar 18, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Oklahoma fire history

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. 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.