Prairie Fire
The Prairie Fire burned 1,888 acres in Texas, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to March 26, 1991.
- Size
- 1,888 acres
- Ignition
- March 26, 1991
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,888 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.495, -102.720.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,888 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,188 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 26, 1991
- State
- Texas
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- NMCIF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1991-NMCIF-000001
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3649510272019910326
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Perimeter map method
- Digitized From Hardcopy Orthophoto quad
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 199112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 6,993 | Feb 22, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,464 | Oct 24, 1991 | |
| Shakelford Fire | 5,585 | May 2, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,282 | Feb 22, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,271 | Mar 10, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,524 | Feb 13, 1991 | |
| Unit 7 B 8 Fire | 3,403 | Jan 31, 1991 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,675 | Oct 18, 1991 | |
| Unit 1 B Fire | 1,592 | Dec 4, 1991 | |
| Unit 1 A Fire | 1,486 | Nov 21, 1991 | |
| Unit 5 Fire | 1,219 | Dec 16, 1991 | |
| Unit 7 A Fire | 1,151 | Nov 21, 1991 |
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.