Railroad Grade 2016 Fire
The Railroad Grade 2016 Fire was reported on April 18, 2016 in Carter County, Tennessee and burned 1,727 acres. It was declared out on April 29, 2016.
- Size
- 1,727 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 18, 2016
- Personnel
- 20
Radar
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Radar mosaic and map layers from NOAA MRMS and NOAA Storm Prediction Center. Boundaries from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet.
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 36.217, -82.110.
The incident
- Size
- 1,727 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- April 18, 2016 at 1:49 PM EDT
- Contained
- April 22, 2016 at 6:00 PM EDT
- Controlled
- April 29, 2016 at 6:00 PM EDT
- Declared out
- April 29, 2016 at 6:00 PM EDT
- Cause
- Undetermined
- Location
- 3 miles northwest of Roan Mountain, TN
- County
- Carter County
- State
- Tennessee
- Nearest city reported
- Elizabethton
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Personnel assigned
- 20
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Hardwood Litter
- Estimated cost to date
- $600,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2016-TNCNF-000183
- IRWIN identifier
- 1627138A-99EE-4C5F-809A-89917A4F974D
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Roan Mountain, TN covers the area today.
Nearby
- Roan Mountain, TN3 miles southeast of the fire’s origin
- Elizabethton, TN11 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Hunter, TN11 miles north of the fire’s origin
- Central, TN13 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Pine Crest, TN13 miles northwest of the fire’s origin
- Unicoi, TN13 miles west of the fire’s origin
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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 May 10, 2016 at 10:45 AM EDT. Identifier 2016-TNCNF-000183.