Wildfires of 2011

11 East Trapps 2 Sec Fire

2011KansasWildfire

The 11 East Trapps 2 Sec Fire burned 2,269 acres in Kansas, in 2011. It was discovered on April 12, 2011, and contained on April 12, 2011. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
2,269 acres
Discovered
April 12, 2011
Contained
April 12, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,003 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.521, -96.478.

The record

Reported final size
2,269 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,003 acres
Discovered
April 12, 2011, 12:30 p.m. local time
Contained
April 12, 2011, 10:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Kansas
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve
Agency
National Park Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
KS3841309652120110412
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-621401

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 Kansas in 201112

FireAcresStartCause
Stanton County Fire40,000Mar 22, 2011Human
Tunner Fire17,482May 8, 2011Human
Haskell County Fire9,600Apr 3, 2011
Jorden Springs Fire5,000Apr 9, 2011
V Road Fire5,000Apr 6, 2011Human
Unnamed Fire2,464Mar 10, 2011
Horsethief Fire2,380Apr 10, 2011
Steve Dillon Fire2,000Mar 25, 2011Human
Zimmerman Fire2,000Oct 15, 2011Human
11 Windmill Red Hous Fire1,937Apr 7, 2011
Salt Creek Fire1,897May 3, 2011Human
Zweygardt Fire1,800Mar 16, 2011Human

Every fire of 2011 Kansas 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.