Pagami Creek Fire
The Pagami Creek Fire burned 92,682 acres in Minnesota, in 2011. It was discovered on August 18, 2011, and contained on November 28, 2011. MTBS dates its ignition to August 17, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 92,682 acres
- Discovered
- August 18, 2011
- Contained
- November 28, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 85,079 acres. Point of origin as reported, 47.906, -91.524.
The record
- Reported final size
- 92,682 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 85,079 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 92,624 acres
- Discovered
- August 18, 2011, 3:58 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 17, 2011
- Contained
- November 28, 2011, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Minnesota
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Superior National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4790609152420110817
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1502944
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- Pagami Creek fire was a managed fire. It made major runs and was managed by 5 overhead teams. Fire was controlled mid November from snow. Droughty winter left the fire not out until spring rains.
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 Minnesota in 20116
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juneberry 3 Fire | 28,810 | Oct 5, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,388 | Oct 5, 2011 | Human |
| Neal WMA Fire | 1,540 | Dec 1, 2011 | Human |
| Silo Wildfire Fire | 1,133 | Oct 24, 2011 | Human |
| Heliksen Prairie Fire | 1,122 | Apr 28, 2011 | Human |
| Waubun WMA Fire | 1,000 | Apr 26, 2011 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.