Wildfires of 1988

Unnamed Fire

1988MinnesotaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,475 acres in Minnesota, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to May 13, 1988.

Size
4,475 acres
Ignition
May 13, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,475 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 46.193, -94.432.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,475 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
May 13, 1988
State
Minnesota
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4619309443219880513
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
Originally 2 imgs but often burned area required SS processing.

Other large fires in Minnesota in 198812

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire22,278Apr 8, 1988
Unnamed Fire17,782Apr 10, 1988
Unnamed Fire14,444Apr 16, 1988
Unnamed Fire11,928Apr 8, 1988
Unnamed Fire7,578Apr 16, 1988
Unnamed Fire5,015Apr 30, 1988
Unnamed Fire4,074May 1, 1988
Unnamed Fire3,641Apr 8, 1988
Unnamed Fire3,440Apr 16, 1988
Unnamed Fire2,768Apr 16, 1988
Unnamed Fire2,323Apr 27, 1988
Unnamed Fire2,243Apr 8, 1988

Every fire of 1988 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.