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Irma, Wisconsin

9 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1950 and the latest in 1990. It stands in Birch town. It lies in ZIP code area 54442. It stands on Irma Hill. The Survey maps it on the Irma quadrangle. It stands 1,529 feet above sea level.

Irma within Lincoln County

Topographic sheets covering this place

7 surveys from 9 printed sheets

Matched 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.

Fires near this place

108 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 108 fires within 5 miles of Irma between 1992 and 2020, burning about 96 acres in total. 1 started naturally. 6 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
Equipment and vehicle use46
Debris and open burning26
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Arson/incendiarism6
Recreation and ceremony4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Smoking2
Fireworks1
Natural1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
5 September 2005Railroad operations and maintenanceunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
25 September 2009Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesUNDERDOWN
24 September 2017Power generation/transmission/distributionunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesACKERMAN LAKE FIRE
2 September 2012Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesNORTH SHORE FIRE
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesH51
18 September 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural ResourcesH51 NORTH
10 September 1998Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named
1 September 2005Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreWisconsin Department of Natural Resourcesnot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Lincoln County

Storms near this place

14 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Irma in 14 storm reports between 1997 and 2024: 7 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. 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.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
July 1997Thunderstorm WindIrma$1,000no account filed
May 2024HailIrma-Golf ball size hail fell near Irma.
May 2024HailIrma-Quarter size hail fell in Irma. The time of this report is an estimate based on radar data.
June 2021HailIrma-Nickel size hail fell near Irma.
August 2021Thunderstorm WindIrma-Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines in Irma. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
July 2021Thunderstorm WindIrma-Thunderstorm winds downed multiple trees and power lines in Irma. The time of this event is an estimate based on radar data.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindIrma-Thunderstorms winds downed trees east of Irma, in the vicinity of Highway 51 and County Road J.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindIrma-Thunderstorm winds downed several trees around Irma.
June 2012HailIrma-Thunderstorms produced quarter size hail near Irma. Time of report was estimated based on radar data.
July 2010Thunderstorm WindIrma-Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 mph were reported at the intersection of County Road J and Interstate 39.
April 2008HailIrma-Golf ball size hail fell at Highway 51 and county road K near Irma.
June 2007HailIrma-no account filed
July 2004Tornado (F0)Irma-no account filed
July 2002HailIrma-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Lincoln County

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.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Gilbert5.7 miles9
Otis5.9 miles9
West Kraft7.9 miles9
Bloomville8.4 miles9
Tomahawk8.9 miles9
Gleason9.5 miles11
Jersey City10.1 miles9
Dutch Corners10.1 miles12

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 IrmaAn encyclopaedic summary. Its text is share-alike, so it is linked here rather than copied.
Wikidata item Q6071994The 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 1566960. 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.