Salt Creek Fire
The Salt Creek Fire burned 1,897 acres in Kansas, in 2011. It was discovered on May 3, 2011, and contained on May 8, 2011. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,897 acres
- Discovered
- May 3, 2011
- Contained
- May 8, 2011
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,278 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.211, -98.477.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,897 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,278 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 694 acres
- Discovered
- May 3, 2011, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 8, 2011, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Kansas
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Quivira National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Unit
- KSQUR
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2011-KSQUR-F3DW
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3820209847420110503
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2011KSQURF3DW
- Note on the perimeter
- This wildfire was a declared escaped fire. A spot fire was reported on private property around 1455 hours which exceeded on scene resources. See Salt Crew Escaped Fire Review kept at Quivira NWR HQ for full listing of events associated with this esca
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 Kansas in 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stanton County Fire | 40,000 | Mar 22, 2011 | Human |
| Tunner Fire | 17,482 | May 8, 2011 | Human |
| Haskell County Fire | 9,600 | Apr 3, 2011 | |
| Jorden Springs Fire | 5,000 | Apr 9, 2011 | |
| V Road Fire | 5,000 | Apr 6, 2011 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,464 | Mar 10, 2011 | |
| Horsethief Fire | 2,380 | Apr 10, 2011 | |
| 11 East Trapps 2 Sec Fire | 2,269 | Apr 12, 2011 | Human |
| Steve Dillon Fire | 2,000 | Mar 25, 2011 | Human |
| Zimmerman Fire | 2,000 | Oct 15, 2011 | Human |
| 11 Windmill Red Hous Fire | 1,937 | Apr 7, 2011 | |
| Zweygardt Fire | 1,800 | Mar 16, 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.