Wildfires of 1989

Unnamed Fire

1989North CarolinaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,422 acres in North Carolina, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to May 27, 1989.

Size: 2,422 acres
Ignition: May 27, 1989

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,422 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.966, -76.521.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 2,422 acres
Ignition (MTBS): May 27, 1989
State: North Carolina
Incident type: Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier: NC3496607652119890527
MTBS assessment: Initial (SS)

Nearby

Oriental, NC11 miles northwest of the fire
Bayboro, NC19 miles northwest of the fire
Harkers Island, NC19 miles south of the fire
Beaufort, NC19 miles southwest of the fire
Morehead City, NC20 miles southwest of the fire
Atlantic Beach, NC22 miles southwest 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.