Folley Park Fire
The Folley Park Fire was reported on July 17, 2018 in Briscoe County, Texas and burned 2,529 acres. It was declared out on July 24, 2018. The cause is listed as natural.
- Size
- 2,529 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 17, 2018
- Personnel
- 8
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 34.555, -101.158.
The incident
- Size
- 2,529 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- July 17, 2018 at 4:01 PM CDT
- Contained
- July 23, 2018 at 8:08 PM CDT
- Controlled
- July 24, 2018 at 7:53 PM CDT
- Declared out
- July 24, 2018 at 8:00 PM CDT
- Cause
- Natural, Cause and Origin Not Identified
- Location
- 10 miles NE of Silverton, TX
- County
- Briscoe County
- State
- Texas
- Protecting agency
- SFS
- Jurisdiction
- PRI
- Personnel assigned
- 8
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Brush (2 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2018-TXTXS-180769
- IRWIN identifier
- F96D9D44-0692-4A42-ABF7-AAFE70661022
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 7, from July 18, 2018 to July 24, 2018. 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
- 31 on July 19, 2018
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Cost reported by the teams
- $1, in 2018 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 1,500 acres, on July 19, 2018.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Jul 18, 2018 | 500 | |
| Jul 19, 2018 | 2,000 | +1,500 |
| Jul 20, 2018 | 2,529 | +529 |
| Jul 21, 2018 | 2,529 | 0 |
| Jul 22, 2018 | 2,529 | 0 |
| Jul 23, 2018 | 2,529 | 0 |
| Jul 24, 2018 | 2,529 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Silverton, 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 July 25, 2018 at 1:34 PM CDT. Identifier 2018-TXTXS-180769.
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.