Potato Cave Fire
The Potato Cave Fire burned 1,126 acres in Ozark County, Missouri, in 2012. It was discovered on July 28, 2012, and contained on July 30, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,126 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2012
- Contained
- July 30, 2012
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 771 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.714, -92.198.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,126 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 771 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,127 acres
- Discovered
- July 28, 2012, 1:25 p.m. local time
- Contained
- July 30, 2012, 3:35 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Missouri
- County
- Ozark County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Mark Twain National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- MOMTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2012-MOMTF-120154
- MTBS fire identifier
- MO3671409219920120728
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1505112
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Differentially Corrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- 090521WF00000004000
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 Missouri in 20125
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Handy Fire | 12,814 | Mar 27, 2012 | |
| Liberty Fire | 1,625 | Jul 4, 2012 | Human |
| Martin Fire | 1,212 | Jul 5, 2012 | Human |
| Martin Fire | 1,211 | ||
| Kinfolk Rd Fire | 646 | Mar 2, 2012 | Human |
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. 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.