Meier Ranch Fire
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.