Pigeon Roost Fire
The Pigeon Roost Fire burned 865 acres in Martin County, Kentucky, in 2011. It was discovered on February 15, 2011, and contained on February 15, 2011. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 865 acres
- Discovered
- February 15, 2011
- Contained
- February 15, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,037 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.742, -82.415.
The record
- Reported final size
- 865 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,037 acres
- Discovered
- February 15, 2011, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- February 15, 2011, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Martin County
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3774208242620110215
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2011KYKYS15920119001
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.
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.