Wildfires of 1995

Unnamed Fire

1995North CarolinaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in North Carolina, in 1995. It was discovered on April 20, 1995. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
April 20, 1995
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,041 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.958, -76.468.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,041 acres
Discovered
April 20, 1995
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
North Carolina
Reporting unit
North Carolina Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NC3497407647019950420
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS_NC_191408

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 North Carolina in 19951

FireAcresStartCause
Judithis Fire2,000Mar 18, 1995Human

Every fire of 1995 North Carolina 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.