Hwy. 21 South Fire
The Hwy. 21 South Fire burned 1,227 acres in Reynolds County, Missouri, in 2011. It was discovered on March 23, 2011, and contained on March 24, 2011. Incident teams reported 9 structures destroyed.
- Size
- 1,227 acres
- Discovered
- March 23, 2011
- Contained
- March 24, 2011
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Structures destroyed
- 9
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 799 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.095, -90.981.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,227 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 799 acres
- Discovered
- March 23, 2011, 4:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 24, 2011, 4:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Missouri
- County
- Reynolds County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Missouri Department of Conservation
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MO3709509098120110323
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2011-MO-MOS-110057
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: 1. 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
- 9
- Most personnel assigned
- 54 on May 6, 2011
- Cost reported by the teams
- $10,000, in 2011 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Hardwood Litter
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Other large fires in Missouri in 20115
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 9,638 | May 17, 2011 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,679 | Apr 14, 2011 | |
| Minninghaw Fire | 4,761 | Nov 1, 2011 | Human |
| Mud Pond Fire | 3,521 | Apr 3, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,467 | May 17, 2011 |
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.