Wildfires of 1987

Eight Mile Fire

1987MichiganWildfire

The Eight Mile Fire burned 3,475 acres in Michigan, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to May 8, 1987.

Size: 3,475 acres
Ignition: May 8, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,475 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.114, -86.384.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 3,475 acres
Ignition (MTBS): May 8, 1987
State: Michigan
Incident type: Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier: MI4611408638419870508
MTBS assessment: Initial

Other large fires in Michigan in 19871

Fire	Acres	Start	Cause
OGEMAW22 Fire	1,954	May 9, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Michigan fire history

Nearby

Manistique, MI13 miles southeast of the fire
Munising, MI24 miles northwest of the fire
Gladstone, MI36 miles southwest of the fire
Escanaba, MI42 miles southwest of the fire
Newberry, MI45 miles east of the fire
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, MI49 miles west of the fire

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.