Wildfires of 1987

Golden Val Fire

1987MinnesotaOther fire

The Golden Val Fire burned 3,150 acres in Minnesota, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to April 14, 1987.

Size
3,150 acres
Ignition
April 14, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,150 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.341, -95.911.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,150 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 14, 1987
State
Minnesota
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4834109591119870414
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
No good pre-image to pair for dNBR assessment.

Other large fires in Minnesota in 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire131,408Apr 5, 1987
Sandy Lake Fire26,620Apr 18, 1987
Unnamed Fire10,826Apr 12, 1987
Unnamed Fire9,281Apr 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire3,376Apr 9, 1987
Unnamed Fire3,050Apr 16, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,838Apr 26, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,610Apr 3, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,510Mar 16, 1987
Divrson Nw Fire2,423Apr 8, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,181Apr 4, 1987
Unnamed Fire2,167May 5, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Minnesota fire history

Nearby

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.