King County Fire
The King County Fire burned 15,312 acres in Texas, in 1994. It was discovered on April 3, 1994.
- Size
- 15,312 acres
- Discovered
- April 3, 1994
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,753 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.714, -100.048.
The record
- Reported final size
- 15,312 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,753 acres
- Discovered
- April 3, 1994
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3371410004819940403
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-593
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 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| UNIT1ARSON Fire | 13,400 | Dec 14, 1994 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,002 | Jul 13, 1994 | |
| UNIT3ARSON Fire | 9,912 | Nov 1, 1994 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,273 | Jun 29, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,760 | Apr 24, 1994 | |
| Marcus Fire | 6,250 | Jun 8, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,003 | Apr 17, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,573 | Jul 13, 1994 | |
| RX Pwd Coop Fire | 4,025 | Nov 29, 1994 | |
| Estufa Fire | 3,774 | Jul 9, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,638 | Jun 20, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,431 | Jul 6, 1994 |
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.