Wildfires of 1991

Unnamed Fire

1991KentuckyOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 9,084 acres in Kentucky, in 1991. MTBS dates its ignition to December 26, 1991.

Size
9,084 acres
Ignition
December 26, 1991

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 9,084 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.319, -82.454.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
9,084 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
December 26, 1991
State
Kentucky
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
KY3729908244419911226
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

Other large fires in Kentucky in 199112

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire22,277Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire17,401Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire14,263Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire11,111Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire10,179Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire8,198Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire7,180Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire4,980Dec 26, 1991
Otter Fire4,925Oct 25, 1991
Unnamed Fire4,778Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire4,450Dec 26, 1991
Unnamed Fire3,738Dec 26, 1991

Every fire of 1991 Kentucky fire history

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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.