Wildfires of 1986

Fireworks Fire

1986TexasWildfire

The Fireworks Fire burned 4,730 acres in Texas, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to July 5, 1986.

Size
4,730 acres
Ignition
July 5, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,730 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 27.370, -97.337.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,730 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
4,733 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 5, 1986
State
Texas
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
TXPAP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1986-TXPAP-000003
MTBS fire identifier
TX2737009733719860705
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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 19864

FireAcresStartCause
Star Lake Fire8,873Sep 3, 1986
Rocket Fire1,657Jul 9, 1986
Pan Am Fire1,515Jul 4, 1986
North Unit Fire1,331Mar 17, 1986

Every fire of 1986 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.