FRYEBURG – A forest fire believed to have started Tuesday near a meter on a Central Maine Power Co. utility pole, burned about 4 acres, mostly in New Hampshire, according to the Maine Forest Service.

The fire burned six-tenths of an acre in Fryeburg and 3.3 acres on the South Chatham, N.H., side of Kimball Pond, service fire prevention specialist Kent Nelson said Tuesday afternoon in Augusta.

“It doesn’t appear to have a human cause that we know of,” Nelson said.

The utility company was contacted and will examine the pole and meter to determine what happened.

Nelson credited greening foliage and cooler temperatures and high humidities with restricting the fire to leaf litter rather than allowing it to spread higher into trees where it posed a greater danger to area buildings.

“It certainly wasn’t going to crown out or anything, but, if the wind had shifted, it would have threatened two camps, so it was fortunate that conditions were fairly good,” Nelson said.

Among the responding fire departments were, Fryeburg, Lovell, and Chatham, N.H., and a White Mountain National Forest Service fire crew.

“There was very little mop-up for them because it was a low-intensity fire,” Nelson added.