Puerto Negro Fire
The Puerto Negro Fire burned 1,500 acres in Vieques Municipio County, Puerto Rico, in 2013. It was discovered on March 26, 2013, and contained on April 6, 2013. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,500 acres
- Discovered
- March 26, 2013
- Contained
- April 6, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 630 acres. Point of origin as reported, 18.138, -65.325.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 630 acres
- Discovered
- March 26, 2013, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- April 6, 2013, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Puerto Rico
- County
- Vieques Municipio County
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Vieques National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- PR1813806532520130326
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2013PRVQRHDH1
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.
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.