Gage Holland Fire
The Gage Holland Fire burned 5,975 acres in Brewster County, Texas, in 2011. It was discovered on May 8, 2011, and contained on May 9, 2011. The cause was recorded as human. Incident teams reported 1 structure destroyed.
- Size
- 5,975 acres
- Discovered
- May 8, 2011
- Contained
- May 9, 2011
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,299 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.331, -103.774.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,975 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,299 acres
- Discovered
- May 8, 2011, 12:17 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 9, 2011, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Brewster County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3032510377120110508
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-TX2011-78011
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: 14, from May 8, 2011 to May 19, 2011. 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.
- Structures destroyed
- 1 (1 residence)
- Most structures threatened at once
- 75
- Most personnel assigned
- 73 on May 9, 2011
- Most aircraft assigned
- 4
- People evacuated, at the most
- Evacuations were reported; no count was filed
- Cost reported by the teams
- $907,096, in 2011 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Dormant Brush, Hardwood Slash
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,425 acres, on May 11, 2011.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| May 8, 2011 | 3,500 | |
| May 9, 2011 | 4,550 | +1,050 |
| May 10, 2011 | 4,550 | 0 |
| May 11, 2011 | 5,975 | +1,425 |
| May 12, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 13, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 14, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 15, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 16, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 17, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 18, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
| May 19, 2011 | 5,975 | 0 |
Other large fires in Texas in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rock House Fire | 314,444 | Apr 9, 2011 | Human |
| Deaton Cole Fire | 175,000 | Apr 25, 2011 | Human |
| Cooper Mountain Ranch Fire | 162,625 | Apr 11, 2011 | Natural |
| Wildcat Fire | 158,308 | Apr 10, 2011 | Natural |
| Pk Complex | 126,734 | Apr 9, 2011 | Natural |
| Swenson Fire | 122,500 | Apr 6, 2011 | Human |
| Frying Pan Ranch Fire | 106,027 | Apr 14, 2011 | |
| Dickens County Complex | 89,200 | May 6, 2011 | Human |
| Iron Mountain Fire | 87,401 | May 9, 2011 | Natural |
| Schwartz Fire | 83,995 | May 7, 2011 | Natural |
| White Hat Fire | 72,473 | Jun 20, 2011 | Human |
| Tom Fire | 65,000 | Feb 27, 2011 | 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.