Wildfires of 1991

Arbuckle Fire

1991OklahomaWildfire

The Arbuckle Fire burned 29,820 acres in Oklahoma, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to March 5, 1991.

Size
29,820 acres
Ignition
March 5, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 29,820 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.386, -97.150.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
29,820 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
March 5, 1991
State
Oklahoma
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3438609715019910305
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

Other large fires in Oklahoma in 199112

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire16,717Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire7,728Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire5,875Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire5,810Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire4,551Mar 3, 1991
Unnamed Fire3,329Mar 12, 1991
Blackbear Fire2,609Mar 10, 1991
Burma Fire2,155Mar 10, 1991
Unnamed Fire2,112Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire2,024Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire1,942Mar 12, 1991
Unnamed Fire1,076Mar 12, 1991

Every fire of 1991 Oklahoma fire history

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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.