Smoke Hole Fire
The Smoke Hole Fire burned 1,611 acres in Pendleton County, West Virginia, in 2013. It was discovered on November 10, 2013, and contained on November 29, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,611 acres
- Discovered
- November 10, 2013
- Contained
- November 29, 2013
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,436 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.855, -79.297.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,611 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,436 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,610 acres
- Discovered
- November 10, 2013, 12:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- November 29, 2013, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- West Virginia
- County
- Pendleton County
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- Monongahela National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- WVMOF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2013-WVMOF-013010
- MTBS fire identifier
- WV3888307928320131110
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1519190
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 West Virginia in 20131
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| WAYNE-S2013-108 Fire | 745 | Apr 6, 2013 | Human |
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.