Wildfires of 1994

Stable Fire

1994NebraskaWildfire

The Stable Fire burned 900 acres in Nebraska, in 1994. It was discovered on June 27, 1994, and contained on June 27, 1994. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
900 acres
Discovered
June 27, 1994
Contained
June 27, 1994
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,705 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.417, -102.583.

The record

Reported final size
900 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,705 acres
Discovered
June 27, 1994, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
June 27, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Nebraska
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4134210262319940627
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1994NECLR6735

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 Nebraska in 19942

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire2,500Mar 22, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,280Apr 16, 1994

Every fire of 1994 Nebraska 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.