Honey Creek Fire
The Honey Creek Fire was reported on August 15, 2016 in Murray County, Oklahoma and burned 3,360 acres. It is 100 percent contained. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 3,360 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 15, 2016
- Personnel
- 2
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 34.410, -97.160.
The incident
- Size
- 3,360 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 15, 2016 at 3:00 PM CDT
- Cause
- Human
- County
- Murray County
- State
- Oklahoma
- Protecting agency
- DVF
- Personnel assigned
- 2
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $100,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-OKOKS-160027
- IRWIN identifier
- E86DB8A3-A3AB-42E0-81AB-02B5E08256A6
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from August 16, 2016 to August 19, 2016. 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
- 15
- Most personnel assigned
- 31 on August 17, 2016
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Cost reported by the teams
- $100,000, in 2016 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 1,760 acres, on August 17, 2016.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 16, 2016 | 1,600 | |
| Aug 17, 2016 | 3,360 | +1,760 |
| Aug 18, 2016 | 3,360 | 0 |
| Aug 19, 2016 | 3,360 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Springer, OK 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 August 19, 2016 at 10:55 AM CDT. Identifier 2016-OKOKS-160027.
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.