Wildfires of 1990

CRAWFORD15 Fire

1990MichiganWildfire

The CRAWFORD15 Fire burned 6,868 acres in Michigan, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to May 8, 1990.

Size: 6,868 acres
Ignition: May 8, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,868 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.696, -84.528.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 6,868 acres
Ignition (MTBS): May 8, 1990
State: Michigan
Incident type: Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier: MI4469508452919900508
MTBS assessment: Extended (SS)

Nearby

Grayling, MI9 miles west of the fire
Roscommon, MI14 miles south of the fire
Lewiston, MI17 miles northeast of the fire
Mio, MI20 miles east of the fire
Saint Helen, MI24 miles south of the fire
Gaylord, MI24 miles north 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.