Gnatcatche Fire
The Gnatcatche Fire burned 5,711 acres in Georgia, in 1993. It was discovered on June 8, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,711 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,211 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.594, -82.322.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,711 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,211 acres
- Discovered
- June 8, 1993, 1:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Georgia
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- GA3058108234219930608
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1993GAOKR4893
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billys Island Fire | 3,023 | Feb 17, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,151 | Apr 10, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,313 | Mar 9, 1993 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,257 | Feb 23, 1993 | |
| Big Mountain Fire | 1,050 | Jul 8, 1993 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,044 | Mar 9, 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.