Wildfires of 2010

Jonancy Fire

2010Pike County, KentuckyWildfire

The Jonancy Fire burned 500 acres in Pike County, Kentucky, in 2010. It was discovered on April 5, 2010, and contained on April 5, 2010. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
500 acres
Discovered
April 5, 2010
Contained
April 5, 2010
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,691 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.323, -82.571.

The record

Reported final size
500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,691 acres
Discovered
April 5, 2010, 8:00 a.m. local time
Contained
April 5, 2010, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Kentucky
County
Pike County
Reporting unit
Kentucky Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
KY3729808258020100405
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2010-KYKYS19520109029

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 Kentucky in 20103

FireAcresStartCause
Fish Trap Complex1,640Oct 24, 2010Human
Claylick Fire1,102Apr 16, 2010Human
Wooten Fork Fire450Apr 14, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Kentucky fire history

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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.