Sunday Evening Fire
The Sunday Evening Fire was reported on December 20, 2015 in Hutchinson County, Texas and burned 2,197 acres. It was declared out on December 21, 2015.
- Size
- 2,197 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- December 20, 2015
- Personnel
- 6
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 35.889, -101.405.
The incident
- Size
- 2,197 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- December 20, 2015 at 8:25 PM CST
- Contained
- December 21, 2015 at 1:34 PM CST
- Declared out
- December 21, 2015 at 1:34 PM CST
- Cause
- Undetermined
- County
- Hutchinson County
- State
- Texas
- Personnel assigned
- 6
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2015-TXTXS-001016
- IRWIN identifier
- 7FD20DCF-C415-4B63-8331-4273E5EEE1F3
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 1. 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 personnel assigned
- 6 on December 21, 2015
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Stinnett, TX covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated December 21, 2015 at 2:27 PM CST. Identifier 2015-TXTXS-001016.
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.