What is the average size of a campfire?

Answer 1

IF the fire is used for cooking food in pans the fire is as small as a stovetop burner flame. The fire is kept flaming with small pieces of wood, like twigs added constantly. Have a reserve stockpile of twigs and split wood to keep feeding the small fire. Smaller pieces of wood burn up quickly. If the fire is larger it is too hot to get close to it to manage handling a pot of food cooking. ... Other campfires that are not used for cooking will be bigger because bigger pieces of wood are fed to it. Bigger pieces take longer to burn with less attendance. The fire should be controlled to be about the size of a milk crate. If the crowd of campers is more than four then the fire may be larger. Larger fires need more dead wood and this means more wood has to be gathered before it is dark in the forest.