Jonestract Fire
The Jonestract Fire burned 2,085 acres in Oklahoma, in 1995. It was discovered on March 1, 1995. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,085 acres
- Discovered
- March 1, 1995
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,030 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.717, -94.533.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,085 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,030 acres
- Discovered
- March 1, 1995, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Ozark Plateau National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3571409452619950301
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1995OKOBR2234
- Note on the perimeter
- numerous polygons
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,920 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,041 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Lick Hollow Fire | 2,770 | Mar 19, 1995 | Human |
| F128 Fire | 2,310 | Mar 21, 1995 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,200 | Feb 19, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,109 | Apr 1, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,992 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,820 | Feb 25, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,787 | Apr 1, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,433 | Jan 25, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Mar 23, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,100 | Feb 23, 1995 |
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.