Wildfires of 2013

Singleton Creek Fire

2013Bradley County, ArkansasWildfire

The Singleton Creek Fire burned 1,509 acres in Bradley County, Arkansas, in 2013. It was discovered on September 17, 2013.

Size
1,509 acres
Discovered
September 17, 2013
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,125 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.375, -92.087.

The record

Reported final size
1,509 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,125 acres
Discovered
September 17, 2013, 3:27 a.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Arkansas
County
Bradley County
Reporting unit
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AR3337009208720130917
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2013ARARSBRAD109

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 20134

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire3,499Apr 11, 2013
Unnamed Fire2,024Apr 19, 2013
Unnamed Fire1,996May 5, 2013
Slick Rock Hollow Fire1,200Mar 8, 2013Human

Every fire of 2013 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.