Wildfires of 2011

Meier Ranch Fire

2011Morton County, North DakotaWildfire

The Meier Ranch Fire burned 1,200 acres in Morton County, North Dakota, in 2011. It was discovered on November 3, 2011. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
November 3, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 46.275, -100.381.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Discovered
November 3, 2011, 2:45 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
North Dakota
County
Morton County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
North Dakota State Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2011NDFSND_02282012_249

Nearby

Sources

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.