Mayday Fire
The Mayday Fire burned 3,495 acres in Texas, in 1993. It was discovered on May 31, 1993, and contained on June 10, 1993. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 3,495 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 1993
- Contained
- June 10, 1993
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,466 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.185, -103.653.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,495 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,466 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,463 acres
- Discovered
- May 31, 1993, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 10, 1993, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Texas
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Big Bend National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- TXBBP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1993-TXBBP-009307
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX2918310364819930531
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-266675
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 | |
| Blue Allegheny Fire | 3,808 | Sep 7, 1993 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.