Wildfires of 2012

Rose Hill Fire

2012Clark County, ArkansasWildfire

The Rose Hill Fire burned 852 acres in Clark County, Arkansas, in 2012. It was discovered on August 13, 2012, and contained on August 13, 2012. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
852 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2012
Contained
August 13, 2012
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,002 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.863, -93.171.

The record

Reported final size
852 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,002 acres
Discovered
August 13, 2012, 4:45 p.m. local time
Contained
August 13, 2012
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Arkansas
County
Clark County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AR3385909316920120813
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2012AFCAR8/13/20122100852

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 Arkansas in 20125

FireAcresStartCause
Hess Knob Fire1,435Aug 1, 2012Natural
Lacey Fire1,414Aug 14, 2012Human
Turkey Pen Springs Fire1,032Mar 2, 2012Human
Ola Fire1,014Jul 25, 2012Human
Raspberry Mountain Fire873Nov 27, 2012Natural

Every fire of 2012 Arkansas 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.