Vivian Fire
The Vivian Fire was reported on August 20, 2019 in Foard County, Texas and burned 12,021 acres. It was declared out on September 3, 2019.
- Size
- 12,021 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 20, 2019
- Personnel
- 3
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 34.026, -99.870.
The incident
- Size
- 12,021 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 20, 2019 at 4:31 PM CDT
- Contained
- September 1, 2019 at 8:31 AM CDT
- Controlled
- September 3, 2019 at 5:59 PM CDT
- Declared out
- September 3, 2019 at 5:59 PM CDT
- Cause
- Unknown, Cause and Origin Not Identified
- Location
- 3 miles west of Crowell, TX
- County
- Foard County
- State
- Texas
- Protecting agency
- SFS
- Jurisdiction
- SFS
- Personnel assigned
- 3
- Incident management
- Type 5 IC
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1,833,402
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2019-TXTXS-190262
- IRWIN identifier
- 3C5D3B6A-01C1-4F3D-BD86-EE6BC760ED31
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 14, from August 20, 2019 to August 31, 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 structures threatened at once
- 220
- Most personnel assigned
- 73 on August 27, 2019
- Most aircraft assigned
- 9
- Cost reported by the teams
- $1.8 million, in 2019 dollars
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 3,373 acres, on August 22, 2019.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 20, 2019 | 2,500 | |
| Aug 21, 2019 | 5,500 | +3,000 |
| Aug 22, 2019 | 8,873 | +3,373 |
| Aug 23, 2019 | 11,218 | +2,345 |
| Aug 24, 2019 | 12,021 | +803 |
| Aug 25, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 26, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 27, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 28, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 29, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 30, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
| Aug 31, 2019 | 12,021 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Crowell, 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 September 3, 2019 at 6:00 PM CDT. Identifier 2019-TXTXS-190262.
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.