Wildfires of 1986

MARQUETTE11 Fire

1986MichiganWildfire

The MARQUETTE11 Fire burned 3,980 acres in Michigan, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to May 6, 1986.

Size: 3,980 acres
Ignition: May 6, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,980 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.306, -87.353.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 3,980 acres
Ignition (MTBS): May 6, 1986
State: Michigan
Incident type: Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier: MI4630508735319860506
MTBS assessment: Initial (SS)

Other large fires in Michigan in 19861

Fire	Acres	Start	Cause
MARQUETTE13 Fire	2,489	May 6, 1986

Every fire of 1986 Michigan fire history

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Sources

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.