Singleton Creek Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,499 | Apr 11, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,024 | Apr 19, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,996 | May 5, 2013 | |
| Slick Rock Hollow Fire | 1,200 | Mar 8, 2013 | Human |
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.