Cottonwood Fire
The Cottonwood Fire was reported on March 22, 2018 in Stafford County, Kansas and burned 1,508 acres. It was declared out on May 20, 2018. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 1,508 acres
- Contained
- 98%
- Discovered
- March 22, 2018
- Personnel
- 6
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 38.202, -98.482.
The incident
- Size
- 1,508 acres
- Containment
- 98%
- Discovered
- March 22, 2018 at 3:00 PM CDT
- Contained
- March 24, 2018 at 8:00 PM CDT
- Controlled
- March 26, 2018 at 7:00 PM CDT
- Declared out
- May 20, 2018 at 7:00 PM CDT
- Cause
- Natural
- Location
- Quivira NWR, Stafford County, KS
- County
- Stafford County
- State
- Kansas
- Protecting agency
- FWS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFWS
- Personnel assigned
- 6
- Incident management
- Type 3 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $100,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2018-KSQUR-000381
- IRWIN identifier
- 150F6C8F-7F06-45C4-8381-78E439DA5D2B
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 2. 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
- 11 on March 26, 2018
- Cost reported by the teams
- $100,000, in 2018 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- 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 Ellinwood, KS 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 May 21, 2018 at 9:27 AM CDT. Identifier 2018-KSQUR-000381.
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.