Wildfires of 1992

Ncf Barnett Prescribed Fire

1992TexasPrescribed fire

The Ncf Barnett Prescribed Fire burned 1,200 acres in Texas, in 1992. It was discovered on December 7, 1992. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
December 7, 1992
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,467 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.750, -94.050.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,467 acres
Discovered
December 7, 1992, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Texas
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
TX2974709404619921207
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1992TXMCR2198

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 199211

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire9,000Sep 21, 1992
Smith Marsh Fire3,059Aug 25, 1992
Unnamed Fire2,471Oct 3, 1992
Gap Fire2,412Jul 1, 1992Natural
Unnamed Fire2,090Nov 14, 1992
Unnamed Fire1,855Mar 14, 1992
Unnamed Fire1,573Oct 29, 1992
Unnamed Fire1,421Oct 3, 1992
Dippingvat Fire1,300Sep 9, 1992
Tptwister Fire1,100Sep 11, 1992
Txpt Beach Fire1,089Jul 18, 1992Natural

Every fire of 1992 Texas fire history

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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.