San Saba Fire
The San Saba Fire burned 12,892 acres in Texas, in 1993. It was discovered on August 15, 1993.
- Size
- 12,892 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 1993
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,884 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.103, -98.948.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,892 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,884 acres
- Discovered
- August 15, 1993
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3110309894719930815
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-689
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 | |
| 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 | |
| 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.