Wildlife South Fire
The Wildlife South Fire burned 1,100 acres in Atoka County, Oklahoma, in 2010. It was discovered on March 6, 2010, and contained on March 6, 2010. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,100 acres
- Discovered
- March 6, 2010
- Contained
- March 6, 2010
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,473 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.519, -95.901.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,100 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,473 acres
- Discovered
- March 6, 2010, 11:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 6, 2010, 11:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Atoka County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Oklahoma Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3454309592020100306
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2010-OKOFS1-2010-10027-A
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: 1. 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
- 5 on March 8, 2010
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Other large fires in Oklahoma in 201012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Persimmon Ridge Rd Fire | 3,200 | Dec 20, 2010 | Human |
| Hutchinson Rd Fire | 3,200 | Dec 22, 2010 | Human |
| North Woodward Fire | 3,000 | Apr 9, 2010 | Human |
| Deer Lake Fire | 2,613 | Mar 30, 2010 | Human |
| County Line Fire | 2,300 | Sep 3, 2010 | Human |
| North Mountain Fire | 2,265 | Aug 13, 2010 | Human |
| Tallant Hill Fire | 2,180 | Mar 30, 2010 | Human |
| Gulf Fire | 1,659 | Nov 28, 2010 | Human |
| Pistol Pete Fire | 1,621 | Mar 19, 2010 | Human |
| Airstream Fire | 1,567 | Mar 19, 2010 | Human |
| Red Rooster Fire | 1,500 | Aug 26, 2010 | Human |
| Lookout Fire | 1,475 | Mar 4, 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.