Wildfires of 1995

Lick Hollow Fire

1995OklahomaWildfire

The Lick Hollow Fire burned 2,770 acres in Oklahoma, in 1995. It was discovered on March 19, 1995, and contained on March 23, 1995. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
2,770 acres
Discovered
March 19, 1995
Contained
March 23, 1995
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,483 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.617, -94.500.

The record

Reported final size
2,770 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,483 acres
Discovered
March 19, 1995, 5:00 p.m. local time
Contained
March 23, 1995, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Oklahoma
Reporting unit
Ozark-St. Francis National Forests
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3562709448319950319
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-309354

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
F128 Fire2,310Mar 21, 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.