Wildfires of 1984

Morris Fire

1984TexasWildfire

The Morris Fire burned 1,108 acres in Texas, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to March 29, 1984.

Size
1,108 acres
Ignition
March 29, 1984

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,108 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.367, -102.752.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,108 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,044 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
March 29, 1984
State
Texas
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NMCIF
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1984-NMCIF-000001
MTBS fire identifier
TX3635010276719840329
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Perimeter map method
Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
Note on the perimeter
estimated perimeter

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in Texas in 19846

FireAcresStartCause
Stewait Fire3,693Feb 26, 1984
Dippengrat Fire2,847Sep 10, 1984
Unnamed Fire1,942Nov 30, 1984
Wend One Fire1,906Aug 27, 1984
Unnamed Fire1,516Nov 30, 1984
Unnamed Fire1,289Oct 13, 1984

Every fire of 1984 Texas fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.