Deep Creek Fire
The Deep Creek Fire was reported on August 30, 2020 in Shackelford County, Texas and burned 3,971 acres. It was declared out on September 6, 2020.
- Size
- 3,971 acres
- Contained
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 30, 2020
- Personnel
- 1
Map
No perimeter has been mapped for this fire; the map shows its point of origin. Point of origin 32.687, -99.150.
The incident
- Size
- 3,971 acres
- Containment
- 100%
- Discovered
- August 30, 2020 at 8:43 AM CDT
- Contained
- September 1, 2020 at 4:25 PM CDT
- Controlled
- September 6, 2020 at 5:26 PM CDT
- Declared out
- September 6, 2020 at 5:26 PM CDT
- Cause
- Unknown, Cause and Origin Not Identified
- Location
- east of Albany, TX FM 601
- County
- Shackelford County
- State
- Texas
- Protecting agency
- SFS
- Jurisdiction
- SFS
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Personnel assigned
- 1
- Incident management
- Type 3 Team
- Primary fuel
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Estimated cost to date
- $1
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2020-TXTXS-200572
- IRWIN identifier
- 89657A4B-380E-46B6-9E13-D2B483582B07
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from August 30, 2020 to September 2, 2020. 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
- 30
- Most personnel assigned
- 31 on September 1, 2020
- Most aircraft assigned
- 9
- Cost reported by the teams
- $1, in 2020 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Lightning or other natural
- Primary fuel model reported
- Tall Grass (2.5 feet)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 30, 2020 | 3,971 | |
| Aug 31, 2020 | 3,971 | 0 |
| Sep 1, 2020 | 3,971 | 0 |
| Sep 2, 2020 | 3,971 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Albany, 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 6, 2020 at 5:26 PM CDT. Identifier 2020-TXTXS-200572.
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.