Wildfires of 1994

Unnamed Fire

1994Williamsburg County, South CarolinaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 862 acres in Williamsburg County, South Carolina, in 1994. It was discovered on March 18, 1994, and contained on March 18, 1994.

Size
862 acres
Discovered
March 18, 1994
Contained
March 18, 1994
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,176 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.575, -79.892.

The record

Reported final size
862 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,176 acres
Discovered
March 18, 1994
Contained
March 18, 1994
Cause
Undetermined
State
South Carolina
County
Williamsburg County
Reporting unit
South Carolina Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
SC3358607987519940318
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SC_12983

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 South Carolina in 199412

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire2,545Mar 23, 1994
Cm 15 16 17 Fire1,872Feb 17, 1994
Comp 1112 Fire1,798Feb 3, 1994
Comp 3 Fire1,381Feb 3, 1994
Comp 1920 Fire1,371Feb 4, 1994
Comp 5 Fire1,340Feb 3, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,288Mar 23, 1994
Eastmarsh Fire1,245Mar 8, 1994Human
Comp 8 9 Fire1,155Feb 16, 1994
Comp 14 B Fire1,066Feb 3, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,018Mar 23, 1994
Unnamed Fire571Mar 27, 1994

Every fire of 1994 South Carolina 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.