Slick Rock Hollow Fire
The Slick Rock Hollow Fire burned 1,200 acres in Arkansas, in 2013. It was discovered on March 8, 2013, and contained on March 11, 2013. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- March 8, 2013
- Contained
- March 11, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,216 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.099, -92.486.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,216 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,212 acres
- Discovered
- March 8, 2013, 11:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- March 11, 2013, 3:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Arkansas
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Buffalo National River
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- ARBUP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-ARBUP-001304
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3608809248420130308
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-652160
- Perimeter map method
- Autonomous GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 3, from March 11, 2013 to April 8, 2013. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most structures threatened at once
- 16
- Most personnel assigned
- 6 on March 12, 2013
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $18,492, in 2013 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Hardwood Litter
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 11, 2013 | 1,211 | |
| Mar 12, 2013 | 1,211 | 0 |
| Apr 8, 2013 | 1,211 |
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 | |
| Singleton Creek Fire | 1,509 | Sep 17, 2013 |
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. 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.