Wildfires of 1990

Unnamed Fire

1990MinnesotaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 43,529 acres in Minnesota, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to April 18, 1990.

Size
43,529 acres
Ignition
April 18, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 43,529 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 48.173, -95.466.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
43,529 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 18, 1990
State
Minnesota
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4817309546619900418
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Logical imagery used regarding extreme rdnbr offset

Other large fires in Minnesota in 19908

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire32,689Apr 18, 1990
Unnamed Fire26,357Apr 21, 1990
Unnamed Fire8,027Nov 30, 1990
Unnamed Fire5,816Apr 22, 1990
Unnamed Fire1,858Apr 13, 1990
Unnamed Fire1,368Mar 25, 1990
Unnamed Fire1,092Mar 26, 1990
Unit 20 Fire1,026May 3, 1990

Every fire of 1990 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.