Swan Creek Fire
The Swan Creek Fire was reported on March 23, 2019 in Christian County, Missouri and burned 2,121 acres. It was declared out on April 8, 2019. The cause is listed as human.
- Size
- 2,121 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- March 23, 2019
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 36.869, -92.959.
The incident
- Size
- 2,121 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- March 23, 2019 at 1:30 PM CDT
- Contained
- March 28, 2019 at 1:50 PM CDT
- Controlled
- April 4, 2019 at 2:40 PM CDT
- Declared out
- April 8, 2019 at 8:00 AM CDT
- Cause
- Human
- Location
- Swan Creek non-Motorized Area
- County
- Christian County
- State
- Missouri
- Protecting agency
- FS
- Jurisdiction
- FS
- Land ownership at origin
- USFS
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $25,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-MOMTF-000086
- IRWIN identifier
- 3C4C23AD-B455-4F32-83EA-671EF6499846
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 7, from March 27, 2019 to April 6, 2019. 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
- 36 on March 27, 2019
- Most aircraft assigned
- 2
- Cost reported by the teams
- $25,000, in 2019 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 27, 2019 | 1,978 | |
| Mar 28, 2019 | 1,978 | 0 |
| Mar 29, 2019 | 1,978 | 0 |
| Apr 2, 2019 | 1,978 | |
| Apr 3, 2019 | 1,978 | 0 |
| Apr 4, 2019 | 1,978 | 0 |
| Apr 6, 2019 | 1,978 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Sparta, MO 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 7, 2019 at 2:43 PM CDT. Identifier 2019-MOMTF-000086.
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.