Livingston - 418 Fire
The Livingston - 418 Fire burned 1,820 acres in Hardin County, Texas, in 2010. It was discovered on October 25, 2010, and contained on October 27, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,820 acres
- Discovered
- October 25, 2010
- Contained
- October 27, 2010
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,898 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.519, -94.279.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,820 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,898 acres
- Discovered
- October 25, 2010, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 27, 2010, 5:26 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Texas
- County
- Hardin County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Livingston Area
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3054809427620101025
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-TX2010-76736
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: 4, from October 25, 2010 to November 1, 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
- 53
- Most personnel assigned
- 25 on October 26, 2010
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,541 acres, on October 26, 2010.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Oct 25, 2010 | 259 | |
| Oct 26, 2010 | 1,800 | +1,541 |
| Oct 29, 2010 | 1,800 | |
| Nov 1, 2010 | 1,800 |
Other large fires in Texas in 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brite Ranch Fire | 11,590 | May 31, 2010 | Natural |
| Cutoff Fire | 10,362 | Jun 9, 2010 | Natural |
| Robbers Roost Fire | 9,362 | May 28, 2010 | Natural |
| Fathers Day Fire | 6,743 | Jun 20, 2010 | Natural |
| Vest Ranch Fire | 6,000 | Mar 23, 2010 | Human |
| Brite Ranch Rim Fire | 4,670 | Jun 22, 2010 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Nov 15, 2010 | Human |
| York Fire | 3,520 | May 30, 2010 | Natural |
| Orphan Hill Fire | 3,500 | Apr 14, 2010 | Natural |
| Fire 1003311 | 3,000 | Mar 31, 2010 | Human |
| Grass 3 Fire | 3,000 | May 10, 2010 | Human |
| Mcfarland Fire | 2,654 | Jan 22, 2010 | Human |
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.