Wildfires of 1991

Kentis West Fire

1991DelawareOther fire

The Kentis West Fire burned 1,271 acres in Delaware, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to February 4, 1991.

Size
1,271 acres
Ignition
February 4, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,271 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.230, -75.421.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,271 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
February 4, 1991
State
Delaware
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
DE3923007542119910204
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
Thin clouds in post image. A pre-fire image used as perimeter image to help evaluate pre-burn condition.

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.