Wildfires of 1993

Mcivor Fire

1993TexasWildfire

The Mcivor Fire burned 15,380 acres in Texas, in 1993. It was discovered on June 1, 1993.

Size
15,380 acres
Discovered
June 1, 1993
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 15,245 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.679, -104.184.

The record

Reported final size
15,380 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
15,245 acres
Discovered
June 1, 1993
Cause
Undetermined
State
Texas
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TX3067910418419930601
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
TFS-LFDB-650

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

FireAcresStartCause
Donahoe Fire14,016Jun 1, 1993
San Saba Fire12,892Aug 15, 1993
Shafter Fire12,691Jun 17, 1993
Menard Fire10,106Aug 15, 1993
Unnamed Fire7,707Sep 27, 1993
Unnamed Fire6,934Aug 15, 1993
Pine Fire6,510May 8, 1993Human
Unnamed Fire6,475Jul 1, 1993
Unnamed Fire5,896May 23, 1993
Unnamed Fire5,189Jun 1, 1993
Blue Allegheny Fire3,808Sep 7, 1993
Unnamed Fire3,781Sep 27, 1993

Every fire of 1993 Texas 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.