Dad Fire
The Dad Fire burned 21,331 acres in Craven County, North Carolina, in 2012. It was discovered on June 16, 2012, and contained on July 6, 2012. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 21,331 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2012
- Contained
- July 6, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 21,331 acres, mapped by gps - differentially corrected data. Point of origin as reported, 34.933, -77.017.
The record
- Reported final size
- 21,331 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 21,331 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2012, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 6, 2012, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- North Carolina
- County
- Craven County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in North Carolina
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NCNCF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-NCNCF-120072
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1504567
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- Sheep Ridge Wilderness
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
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. 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.