Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,500 acres in Nebraska, in 1994. It was discovered on March 22, 1994.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- March 22, 1994
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,259 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.164, -101.168.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,259 acres
- Discovered
- March 22, 1994
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Nebraska
- Reporting unit
- Nebraska Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NE4116410116819940322
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NE-112-19940322
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,280 | Apr 16, 1994 | |
| Stable Fire | 900 | Jun 27, 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.