Plum Fire
The Plum Fire burned 1,784 acres in Texas, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to June 23, 1990.
- Size
- 1,784 acres
- Ignition
- June 23, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,784 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.599, -101.748.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,784 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,783 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 23, 1990
- State
- Texas
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- TXLAP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1990-TXLAP-009008
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3559810174819900623
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Heads-up Digitized
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 Texas in 199012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chinati Mountain Fire | 22,719 | Jun 9, 1990 | |
| Chuckwagon Fire | 8,285 | Jun 25, 1990 | |
| Big Canyon Fire | 7,436 | Jun 19, 1990 | |
| Perkins Fire | 6,965 | Aug 13, 1990 | |
| Frijole Fire | 6,382 | Jun 25, 1990 | |
| Sea Rim Fire | 3,828 | Oct 23, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,486 | Jul 4, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,889 | Jun 23, 1990 | |
| Arco Fire | 2,098 | Sep 29, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,515 | Jun 25, 1990 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,431 | Dec 8, 1990 | |
| Autobon Fire | 1,426 | Feb 12, 1990 |
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.