Wildfires of 1987

K-T Fire

1987TennesseeWildfire

The K-T Fire burned 6,382 acres in Tennessee, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to October 30, 1987.

Size
6,382 acres
Ignition
October 30, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,382 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.591, -84.365.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,382 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 30, 1987
State
Tennessee
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TN3659108436519871030
MTBS assessment
Extended (SS)
Note on the perimeter
Best scene available mapped extended

Other large fires in Tennessee in 198712

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire11,678Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire10,333Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire5,982Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire4,341Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire4,196Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire3,911Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire3,861Dec 6, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,913Dec 6, 1987
Morton Blf Fire1,854Nov 8, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,450Dec 6, 1987
Hampton Fire1,407Nov 5, 1987
Unnamed Fire1,292Dec 6, 1987

Every fire of 1987 Tennessee 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.