Germann Road Fire
The Germann Road Fire burned 7,499 acres in Douglas County, Wisconsin, in 2013. It was discovered on May 14, 2013. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 7,499 acres
- Discovered
- May 14, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,751 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.280, -91.665.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,499 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,751 acres
- Discovered
- May 14, 2013, 2:45 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Wisconsin
- County
- Douglas County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WI4627409167120130514
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2013WIDNR81030142013
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.
Nearby
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.