Wildfires of 1994

Unnamed Fire

1994Hickory County, MissouriWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 597 acres in Hickory County, Missouri, in 1994. It was discovered on March 22, 1994. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
597 acres
Discovered
March 22, 1994
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,042 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.059, -93.293.

The record

Reported final size
597 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,042 acres
Discovered
March 22, 1994, 8:30 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Missouri
County
Hickory County
Reporting unit
Missouri Department of Conservation
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MO3804109330719940322
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SCHMIDT_29010810
Note on the perimeter
Acres exceed the reported acres

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 Missouri in 19948

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire7,388Mar 22, 1994
Unnamed Fire5,339Apr 7, 1994
Unnamed Fire3,333Mar 22, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,459Mar 22, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,298Apr 7, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,051Apr 7, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,034Mar 22, 1994
Unnamed Fire1,009Mar 22, 1994

Every fire of 1994 Missouri fire history

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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.