Wildfires of 2012

Pokii Ridge Fire

2012Kauai County, HawaiiWildfire

The Pokii Ridge Fire burned 3,000 acres in Kauai County, Hawaii, in 2012. It was discovered on August 16, 2012.

Size
3,000 acres
Discovered
August 16, 2012
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,028 acres. Point of origin as reported, 21.933, -159.717.

The record

Reported final size
3,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,028 acres
Discovered
August 16, 2012, 1:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Hawaii
County
Kauai County
Land ownership at origin
County
Reporting unit
County of Hawai'i
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
HI2193315971620120816
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2012_HI-CNTY-KI-12-0003

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 Hawaii in 20122

FireAcresStartCause
Pta Training Area 22 Fire1,000Nov 15, 2012Human
Unnamed Fire1,000Jun 3, 2012

Every fire of 2012 Hawaii 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.