Wildfires of 1987

Clam Lake Fire

1987TexasWildfire

The Clam Lake Fire burned 1,080 acres in Texas, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to July 18, 1987.

Size
1,080 acres
Ignition
July 18, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,080 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 29.671, -94.092.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,080 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 18, 1987
State
Texas
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TX2967109409219870718
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
wetlands ID shows 1986 as the yearFWS-TXMCR-2058-19860718

Other large fires in Texas in 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire6,786Aug 20, 1987
Clam Lake Fire3,895Oct 5, 1987
Fred Fire3,629Feb 9, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,662Oct 13, 1987
East Fire2,638Aug 20, 1987
East Shore Fire1,751Mar 17, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,702Aug 20, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,692Oct 13, 1987
Nw Star L Fire1,505Dec 4, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,369Sep 4, 1987
Beethovan Fire1,308Dec 16, 1987
Tex Point Fire1,046Sep 23, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Texas 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.