Wildfires of 2010

Wrangler Fire

2010Natchitoches Parish, LouisianaWildfire

The Wrangler Fire burned 4,363 acres in Natchitoches Parish, Louisiana, in 2010. It was discovered on October 13, 2010, and contained on November 15, 2010. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,363 acres
Discovered
October 13, 2010
Contained
November 15, 2010
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,692 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.516, -93.004.

The record

Reported final size
4,363 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,692 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,363 acres
Discovered
October 13, 2010, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
November 15, 2010, 7:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Louisiana
County
Natchitoches Parish
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Kisatchie National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
LAKIF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3150409301420101013
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-1491417
Perimeter map method
GPS - Uncorrected Data
Note on the perimeter
ICT4 Staples; ICT3 McDonald; ICT2 Quesinberry; ICT3 Sanders; ICT4 Pennington; ICT4 Staples.

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 Louisiana in 20106

FireAcresStartCause
Cicada Fire6,259Aug 23, 2010Natural
Miami Fire2,000Jun 20, 2010Natural
Camp Claiborne Fire1,633Mar 14, 2010Human
Mosquito Fire1,421Jul 26, 2010Natural
Big Creek Fire1,295Oct 2, 2010Human
Range 40 Fire600Oct 1, 2010Human

Every fire of 2010 Louisiana fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.