Landfill Fire
The Landfill Fire burned 1,509 acres in Wythe County, Virginia, in 2013. It was discovered on November 12, 2013, and contained on November 22, 2013. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 1,509 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 2013
- Contained
- November 22, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 36.802, -81.166.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,509 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 788 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 2013, 1:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- November 22, 2013, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Wythe County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- George Washington & Jefferson National Forests
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- VAVAF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1519436
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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
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. 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.