Unit 5 Fire
The Unit 5 Fire burned 1,219 acres in Texas, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to December 16, 1991.
- Size
- 1,219 acres
- Ignition
- December 16, 1991
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,219 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 29.697, -94.130.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,219 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 16, 1991
- State
- Texas
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX2969709413019911216
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Note on the perimeter
- High moisture in burned area.Thin clouds in post image.
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 | |
| Prairie Fire | 1,888 | Mar 26, 1991 | |
| Unit 1 B Fire | 1,592 | Dec 4, 1991 | |
| Unit 1 A Fire | 1,486 | Nov 21, 1991 | |
| Unit 7 A Fire | 1,151 | Nov 21, 1991 |
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.