Wildfires of 1994

Newditch-W Fire

1994TexasWildfire

The Newditch-W Fire burned 1,050 acres in Texas, in 1994. It was discovered on October 28, 1994, and contained on October 28, 1994.

Size
1,050 acres
Discovered
October 28, 1994
Contained
October 28, 1994
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,197 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.583, -94.533.

The record

Reported final size
1,050 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,197 acres
Discovered
October 28, 1994, 7:00 a.m. local time
Contained
October 28, 1994, 3:24 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Texas
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TX2956309451319941028
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1994TXAHR2820
Note on the perimeter
wetlands

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

FireAcresStartCause
King County Fire15,312Apr 3, 1994
UNIT1ARSON Fire13,400Dec 14, 1994Human
Unnamed Fire11,002Jul 13, 1994
UNIT3ARSON Fire9,912Nov 1, 1994Human
Unnamed Fire8,273Jun 29, 1994
Unnamed Fire7,760Apr 24, 1994
Marcus Fire6,250Jun 8, 1994Natural
Unnamed Fire6,003Apr 17, 1994
Unnamed Fire4,573Jul 13, 1994
RX Pwd Coop Fire4,025Nov 29, 1994
Estufa Fire3,774Jul 9, 1994Natural
Unnamed Fire3,638Jun 20, 1994

Every fire of 1994 Texas fire history

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.