Wildfires of 1991

Piney Mountain Fire

1991VirginiaWildfire

The Piney Mountain Fire burned 1,464 acres in Virginia, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to October 19, 1991.

Size
1,464 acres
Ignition
October 19, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,464 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.634, -79.316.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,464 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 19, 1991
State
Virginia
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
VA3763407931619911019
MTBS assessment
Initial

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.