Wildfires of 1991

Unaka Fire

1991TennesseeWildfire

The Unaka Fire burned 1,202 acres in Tennessee, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to October 29, 1991.

Size
1,202 acres
Ignition
October 29, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,202 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.921, -83.101.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,202 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 29, 1991
State
Tennessee
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TN3592108310119911029
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

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.