Sunset Fire
The Sunset Fire burned 2,370 acres in Oklahoma, in 1994. It was discovered on April 1, 1994, and contained on April 17, 1994. MTBS dates its ignition to April 12, 1994.
- Size
- 2,370 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1994
- Contained
- April 17, 1994
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,228 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.733, -98.717.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,370 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,228 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1994, 1:45 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 12, 1994
- Contained
- April 17, 1994, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3473409874619940412
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1994OKWMR2659
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire is most likely an Rx due to not being reported and not being a small fire. Forest and shrub areas are within the burn.
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 Oklahoma in 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,289 | Mar 29, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,220 | Mar 18, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,905 | Mar 4, 1994 | |
| Central-P Fire | 3,796 | Aug 19, 1994 | Human |
| Baker Fire | 1,600 | Nov 21, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,530 | Mar 19, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,055 | Mar 18, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,010 | Mar 18, 1994 | |
| Q.range Fire | 1,000 | Jan 26, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Mar 17, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Mar 21, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Apr 2, 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.