63rd Street Fire
The 63rd Street Fire burned 2,192 acres in Oklahoma County, Oklahoma, in 2011. It was discovered on August 30, 2011, and contained on September 3, 2011. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 2,192 acres
- Discovered
- August 30, 2011
- Contained
- September 3, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,296 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.536, -97.415.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,192 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,296 acres
- Discovered
- August 30, 2011, 11:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 3, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Oklahoma County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Oklahoma Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3553609741520110830
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2011-OK-OKS-511006
- Note on the perimeter
- Difficulty in thresholding burned/unburned boundary
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 Oklahoma in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ferguson Fire | 39,907 | Sep 1, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 17,989 | Mar 12, 2011 | |
| Greyhorse Fire | 11,382 | Mar 23, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,360 | Apr 12, 2011 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,450 | Mar 12, 2011 | |
| Main Street Fire | 9,500 | Jan 29, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,801 | Mar 12, 2011 | |
| Bristow 48 Fire | 6,152 | Mar 11, 2011 | Human |
| Turkey Springs Fire | 5,150 | Jun 3, 2011 | |
| Arbuckle Complex | 4,800 | Jul 13, 2011 | Natural |
| South 160 Fire | 4,620 | Apr 4, 2011 | Human |
| Cache Assist Fire | 4,500 | Apr 15, 2011 |
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.