Blue Allegheny Fire
The Blue Allegheny Fire burned 3,808 acres in Texas, in 1993. It was discovered on September 7, 1993.
- Size
- 3,808 acres
- Discovered
- September 7, 1993
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,067 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.425, -100.238.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,808 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,067 acres
- Discovered
- September 7, 1993
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3242510023819930907
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-601
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 199312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mcivor Fire | 15,380 | Jun 1, 1993 | |
| Donahoe Fire | 14,016 | Jun 1, 1993 | |
| San Saba Fire | 12,892 | Aug 15, 1993 | |
| Shafter Fire | 12,691 | Jun 17, 1993 | |
| Menard Fire | 10,106 | Aug 15, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,707 | Sep 27, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,934 | Aug 15, 1993 | |
| Pine Fire | 6,510 | May 8, 1993 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,475 | Jul 1, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,896 | May 23, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,189 | Jun 1, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,781 | Sep 27, 1993 |
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.