Crescent Bow Fire
The Crescent Bow Fire burned 992 acres in Suffolk County, New York, in 2012. It was discovered on April 9, 2012, and contained on April 22, 2012. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 992 acres
- Discovered
- April 9, 2012
- Contained
- April 22, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,069 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.882, -72.838.
The record
- Reported final size
- 992 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,069 acres
- Discovered
- April 9, 2012
- Contained
- April 22, 2012
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- New York
- County
- Suffolk County
- Reporting unit
- New York Forest Rangers
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Part of
- Crescent Bow Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NY4088207283820120409
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-NY-2012-NYS-2012-0075
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.