Wildfires of 2012

Kaylkowski Fire

2012Boyd County, NebraskaWildfire

The Kaylkowski Fire burned 2,500 acres in Boyd County, Nebraska, in 2012. It was discovered on September 8, 2012.

Size
2,500 acres
Discovered
September 8, 2012
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,967 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.802, -98.500.

The record

Reported final size
2,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,967 acres
Discovered
September 8, 2012, 1:34 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Nebraska
County
Boyd County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4280109849920120908
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2012-NE-NES-121187

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 Nebraska in 201212

FireAcresStartCause
Region 24 Complex66,745Jul 20, 2012Natural
Keith County Complex60,000Aug 2, 2012Natural
West Ash Fire56,471Aug 28, 2012Natural
Douthit Fire29,730Aug 28, 2012Natural
Wellnitz Fire28,800Aug 31, 2012Natural
Turner Tatanka Fire19,000Aug 2, 2012Natural
Unnamed Fire18,020Sep 8, 2012
Unnamed Fire7,980Jul 15, 2012
Unnamed Fire6,380Jul 23, 2012Natural
Unnamed Fire6,011Jul 15, 2012
Unnamed Fire5,303Sep 8, 2012
Unnamed Fire4,793Sep 8, 2012

Every fire of 2012 Nebraska fire history

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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.