Wildfires of 1995

F128 Fire

1995OklahomaWildfire

The F128 Fire burned 2,310 acres in Oklahoma, in 1995. It was discovered on March 21, 1995, and contained on March 21, 1995. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
2,310 acres
Discovered
March 21, 1995
Contained
March 21, 1995
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,212 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.000, -95.000.

The record

Reported final size
2,310 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,212 acres
Discovered
March 21, 1995, 10:10 a.m. local time
Contained
March 21, 1995, 10:48 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Oklahoma
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Cherokee Nation Tribe
Agency
Tribal agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3603909479719950321
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-389156
Note on the perimeter
Noise on image

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 199512

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire3,920Feb 23, 1995
Unnamed Fire3,041Feb 23, 1995
Lick Hollow Fire2,770Mar 19, 1995Human
Unnamed Fire2,200Feb 19, 1995
Unnamed Fire2,109Apr 1, 1995
Jonestract Fire2,085Mar 1, 1995Human
Unnamed Fire1,992Feb 23, 1995
Unnamed Fire1,820Feb 25, 1995
Unnamed Fire1,787Apr 1, 1995
Unnamed Fire1,433Jan 25, 1995
Unnamed Fire1,200Mar 23, 1995
Unnamed Fire1,100Feb 23, 1995

Every fire of 1995 Oklahoma 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.