Midnight Fire
The Midnight Fire burned 1,083 acres in Mississippi, in 1994. It was discovered on January 18, 1994, and contained on January 21, 1994. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,083 acres
- Discovered
- January 18, 1994
- Contained
- January 21, 1994
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,142 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.417, -88.417.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,083 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,142 acres
- Discovered
- January 18, 1994, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- January 21, 1994, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Mississippi
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3040708843119940118
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1994MSGBR4212
- Note on the perimeter
- No good image pair for better dNBR offset
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 Mississippi in 19947
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,110 | Feb 2, 1994 | Human |
| S Bound Fire | 2,260 | Mar 31, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,182 | Nov 5, 1994 | |
| Cptg 06 Fire | 1,910 | Nov 2, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,007 | Mar 15, 1994 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,001 | Feb 25, 1994 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,001 | Mar 6, 1994 | Human |
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.