Flatrock Fire
The Flatrock Fire burned 2,008 acres in Arkansas, in 2011. It was discovered on October 4, 2011, and contained on October 9, 2011. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,008 acres
- Discovered
- October 4, 2011
- Contained
- October 9, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,734 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.951, -92.919.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,008 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,734 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,824 acres
- Discovered
- October 4, 2011, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- October 9, 2011, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Arkansas
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Buffalo National River
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- ARBUP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-ARBUP-001141
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3595109291920111004
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-630494
- Perimeter map method
- Differential GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 Arkansas in 20115
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 5,354 | Aug 3, 2011 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,452 | Apr 14, 2011 | |
| High Peak Fire | 1,535 | Jul 29, 2011 | Natural |
| Blue Branch Fire | 1,384 | Aug 4, 2011 | Human |
| Greenwood Fire | 410 | Jul 28, 2011 | Human |
Nearby
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.