Turkey Pen Springs Fire
The Turkey Pen Springs Fire burned 1,032 acres in Searcy County, Arkansas, in 2012. It was discovered on March 2, 2012, and contained on March 2, 2012. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,032 acres
- Discovered
- March 2, 2012
- Contained
- March 2, 2012
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 36.035, -92.472.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,032 acres
- Discovered
- March 2, 2012, 10:50 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 2, 2012, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Searcy County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Arkansas Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2012AFCAR3/2/20124791032
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from March 2, 2012 to March 7, 2012. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 6 on March 2, 2012
- Cost reported by the teams
- $5,000, in 2012 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 2, 2012 | 110 | |
| Mar 5, 2012 | 800 | |
| Mar 7, 2012 | 1,032 |
Other large fires in Arkansas in 20125
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hess Knob Fire | 1,435 | Aug 1, 2012 | Natural |
| Lacey Fire | 1,414 | Aug 14, 2012 | Human |
| Ola Fire | 1,014 | Jul 25, 2012 | Human |
| Raspberry Mountain Fire | 873 | Nov 27, 2012 | Natural |
| Rose Hill Fire | 852 | Aug 13, 2012 | Human |
Nearby
Sources
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.