Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 6,000 acres in Roseau County, Minnesota, in 1995. It was discovered on October 17, 1995. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 6,000 acres
- Discovered
- October 17, 1995
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,274 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.998, -96.353.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,274 acres
- Discovered
- October 17, 1995
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Roseau County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4898209610219951017
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0349-917845
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sag Corridor Fire | 12,600 | Aug 10, 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
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.