Bartesta Branch Fire
The Bartesta Branch Fire burned 1,542 acres in Letcher County, Kentucky, in 2012. It was discovered on November 25, 2012, and contained on December 1, 2012. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,542 acres
- Discovered
- November 25, 2012
- Contained
- December 1, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 602 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.077, -82.824.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,542 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 602 acres
- Discovered
- November 25, 2012, 3:42 p.m. local time
- Contained
- December 1, 2012, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Letcher County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3707708282720121125
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2012KY-KYS13320129056
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.