Wildfires of 2011

Harvest Ca Fire

2011Lincoln County, NebraskaWildfire

The Harvest Ca Fire burned 7,000 acres in Lincoln County, Nebraska, in 2011. It was discovered on October 4, 2011, and contained on October 7, 2011. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
7,000 acres
Discovered
October 4, 2011
Contained
October 7, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,525 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.394, -100.518.

The record

Reported final size
7,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,525 acres
Discovered
October 4, 2011, 2:48 p.m. local time
Contained
October 7, 2011, 7:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Nebraska
County
Lincoln County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4139410051820111004
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2011-NE-NES-110822

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 Nebraska in 20117

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire5,500Feb 16, 2011Human
Thedford II Fire3,895Apr 22, 2011Human
Unnamed Fire3,650Mar 18, 2011Human
Halsey Dump Fire2,847Apr 5, 2011Human
Unnamed Fire1,200Oct 5, 2011Human
Graduation Fire1,056May 7, 2011Human
Mothers Day Fire1,000May 8, 2011Natural

Every fire of 2011 Nebraska fire history

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.