Wildfires of 1986

Nw N and E Fire

1986MinnesotaOther fire

The Nw N and E Fire burned 1,378 acres in Minnesota, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to October 16, 1986.

Size
1,378 acres
Ignition
October 16, 1986

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,378 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.388, -96.014.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,378 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 16, 1986
State
Minnesota
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4838509601619861016
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
46 std.

Other large fires in Minnesota in 19865

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire1,761Aug 28, 1986
Unnamed Fire1,627Oct 22, 1986
Parker Fire1,283Oct 21, 1986
Unnamed Fire1,097May 29, 1986
Unnamed Fire1,021Apr 11, 1986

Every fire of 1986 Minnesota 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.