Grand Fue Fire
The Grand Fue Fire burned 6,174 acres in Louisiana, in 2011. It was discovered on July 2, 2011, and contained on July 14, 2011. MTBS dates its ignition to July 3, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 6,174 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 2011
- Contained
- July 14, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,999 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.929, -93.474.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,174 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,999 acres
- Discovered
- July 2, 2011, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 3, 2011
- Contained
- July 14, 2011, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2992909347420110703
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2011LASBRF56A
- Note on the perimeter
- Threshold all burn due to low confidence of NBR
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 July 3, 2011 to July 23, 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.
- Most personnel assigned
- 10 on July 4, 2011
- Cost reported by the teams
- $115,000, in 2011 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,600 acres, on July 4, 2011.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 3, 2011 | 1,000 | |
| Jul 4, 2011 | 3,600 | +2,600 |
| Jul 6, 2011 | 5,623 | |
| Jul 7, 2011 | 5,793 | +170 |
| Jul 8, 2011 | 6,077 | +284 |
| Jul 9, 2011 | 6,077 | 0 |
| Jul 10, 2011 | 6,174 | +97 |
| Jul 12, 2011 | 6,174 | |
| Jul 13, 2011 | 6,174 | 0 |
| Jul 14, 2011 | 6,174 | 0 |
| Jul 15, 2011 | 6,174 | 0 |
| Jul 16, 2011 | 6,174 | 0 |
| Jul 17, 2011 | 6,174 | 0 |
| Jul 23, 2011 | 6,174 |
Other large fires in Louisiana in 20117
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tison Fire | 5,968 | May 16, 2011 | |
| Cocodrie Fire | 5,820 | Jul 9, 2011 | Natural |
| TD13 Fire | 4,969 | Sep 2, 2011 | |
| Tourbe Fire | 2,133 | Jun 18, 2011 | Natural |
| Bad Romance Fire | 1,500 | Aug 24, 2011 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,047 | Sep 13, 2011 | |
| Release Fire | 902 | Sep 5, 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.