Sag Corridor Fire
The Sag Corridor Fire burned 12,600 acres in Minnesota, in 1995. It was discovered on August 10, 1995, and contained on August 22, 1995. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.
- Size
- 12,600 acres
- Discovered
- August 10, 1995
- Contained
- August 22, 1995
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 13,836 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.007, -90.773.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 13,836 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 15,814 acres
- Discovered
- August 10, 1995, 2:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- August 22, 1995, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Recreation and ceremony
- State
- Minnesota
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- Superior National Forest
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4822509078219950810
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-310175
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 Minnesota in 19959
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 6,000 | Oct 17, 1995 | Human |
| R92 Fire | 3,500 | Apr 9, 1995 | Human |
| Little Gabbro Fire | 3,048 | Jun 9, 1995 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,360 | Apr 10, 1995 | Human |
| Antler Fire | 1,603 | May 2, 1995 | |
| Unit 16 Fire | 1,559 | May 5, 1995 | |
| Winchell Fire | 1,269 | Jun 20, 1995 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,120 | May 24, 1995 | |
| Swede Fire | 1,010 | Jun 20, 1995 | Natural |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.