BlockCoal Fire, Alabama
12 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1953 and the latest in 1984. It stands in the Reform census division. It lies in ZIP code area 35481. It stands on Little Coal Fire Creek. The Survey maps it on the Reform quadrangle. It stands 282 feet above sea level.
Topographic sheets covering this place
5 surveys from 12 printed sheetsMatched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.
- 1953 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
- 1958 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000
- 1963 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 2 printings
- 1967 USGS Reform quadrangle1:24000, 3 printings
- 1984 USGS West Point quadrangle1:250000, 3 printings
Fires near this place
80 since 1994Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 80 fires within 5 miles of Coal Fire between 1994 and 2017, burning about 929 acres in total. 7 started naturally. 22 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
| Reported cause | Fires |
|---|---|
| Arson/incendiarism | 22 |
| Debris and open burning | 22 |
| Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 14 |
| Natural | 7 |
| Recreation and ceremony | 6 |
| Misuse of fire by a minor | 3 |
| Equipment and vehicle use | 3 |
| Railroad operations and maintenance | 2 |
| Power generation/transmission/distribution | 1 |
The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.
| Date | Cause | Size | Reported by | Name on the report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 September 2000 | Natural | 20 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 24 September 1999 | Equipment and vehicle use | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 21 September 2016 | Debris and open burning | 2.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20160921-1 |
| 19 September 2017 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | 20170919-3 |
| 19 September 2000 | Equipment and vehicle use | under an acre | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 18 September 2000 | Debris and open burning | 4.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 17 September 1997 | Missing data/not specified/undetermined | 3.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
| 16 September 1999 | Debris and open burning | 1.0 acres | Alabama Forestry Commission | not named |
Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:
Storms near this place
2 since 2023Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Coal Fire in 2 storm reports between 2023 and 2025: 1 hail, 1 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.
| When | Event | Place named | Harm | What the report says |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| February 2025 | Thunderstorm Wind | Coal Fire | - | Report from social media of a tree down on a home just west of Reform. |
| June 2023 | Hail | Coal Fire | - | Baseball size hail reported along Highway 82 in Coalfire. |
Nearest settlements
The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.
Elsewhere
Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.
| Wikipedia article on Coal Fire | An encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied. |
| Wikidata item Q18348079 | The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0). |
Provenance
This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 154447. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.