Geiser Fire
The Geiser Fire burned 3,389 acres in Nebraska, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to July 27, 1985.
- Size
- 3,389 acres
- Ignition
- July 27, 1985
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,389 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 42.961, -103.654.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,389 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,279 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 27, 1985
- State
- Nebraska
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NE4296110365419850727
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
- Note on the perimeter
- grass cover type
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 Nebraska in 19851
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mcintosh Fire | 2,299 | Jul 3, 1985 |
Nearby
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.