Gobey Road Fire
The Gobey Road Fire burned 1,384 acres in Morgan County, Tennessee, in 2011. It was discovered on November 12, 2011, and contained on November 14, 2011. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,384 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 2011
- Contained
- November 14, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 973 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.171, -84.509.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,384 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 973 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 2011, 12:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- November 14, 2011, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Tennessee
- County
- Morgan County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Tennessee Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TN3617008450920111112
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2011TDA10385
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.
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.