Wildfires of 1993

Big Mountain Fire

1993GeorgiaWildfire

The Big Mountain Fire burned 1,050 acres in Georgia, in 1993. It was discovered on July 8, 1993, and contained on July 14, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,050 acres
Discovered
July 8, 1993
Contained
July 14, 1993
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 521 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.942, -83.140.

The record

Reported final size
1,050 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
521 acres
Discovered
July 8, 1993, 7:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 14, 1993, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Georgia
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
GA3493408314019930708
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-283672

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 Georgia in 19936

FireAcresStartCause
Gnatcatche Fire5,711Jun 8, 1993Natural
Billys Island Fire3,023Feb 17, 1993
Unnamed Fire2,151Apr 10, 1993
Unnamed Fire1,313Mar 9, 1993
Unnamed Fire1,257Feb 23, 1993
Unnamed Fire1,044Mar 9, 1993

Every fire of 1993 Georgia 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. 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.