Aeromotor Fire
The Aeromotor Fire was reported on July 23, 2017 in Cottle County, Texas and burned 4,866 acres. It was declared out on August 2, 2017. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 4,866 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 23, 2017
- Personnel
- 5
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 34.119, -100.454.
The incident
- Size
- 4,866 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 23, 2017 at 4:21 PM CDT
- Contained
- July 26, 2017 at 11:16 AM CDT
- Controlled
- August 2, 2017 at 5:00 PM CDT
- Declared out
- August 2, 2017 at 5:00 PM CDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- 10 miles northwest of Paducah, TX
- County
- Cottle County
- State
- Texas
- Protecting agency
- SFS
- Personnel assigned
- 5
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2017-TXTXS-001520
- IRWIN identifier
- 9FB663C1-BDD5-4B12-909B-0F79AC840CF5
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 5, from July 24, 2017 to July 28, 2017. 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
- 18 on July 24, 2017
- Cost reported by the teams
- $1, in 2017 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Brush (2 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 282 acres, on July 25, 2017.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 24, 2017 | 4,584 | |
| Jul 25, 2017 | 4,866 | +282 |
| Jul 26, 2017 | 4,866 | 0 |
| Jul 27, 2017 | 4,866 | 0 |
| Jul 28, 2017 | 4,866 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Paducah, 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 August 2, 2017 at 10:41 AM CDT. Identifier 2017-TXTXS-001520.
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.