Mikes Creek Fire
The Mikes Creek Fire burned 5,306 acres in North Dakota, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to July 27, 1988.
- Size
- 5,306 acres
- Ignition
- July 27, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,306 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 47.136, -103.413.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,306 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,819 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 27, 1988
- State
- North Dakota
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NDDPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1988-MTCNF-000129
- MTBS fire identifier
- ND4713710341419880727
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized Other
The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.
Other large fires in North Dakota in 19886
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Murphy Fire | 8,930 | Mar 31, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,593 | Apr 11, 1988 | |
| Cinnamon Creek Fire | 3,201 | Jun 10, 1988 | |
| Danks Fire | 2,429 | Apr 4, 1988 | |
| Fantail Fire | 2,340 | Aug 11, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,680 | Mar 21, 1988 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.