Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,200 acres in Graham County, Kansas, in 1995. It was discovered on October 12, 1995. MTBS dates its ignition to December 25, 1995.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- October 12, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,418 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.245, -99.949.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,418 acres
- Discovered
- October 12, 1995
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 25, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Graham County
- Reporting unit
- Graham County
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3878410066019951225
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- KS-GH404-19951012
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 Kansas in 19955
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,566 | Mar 22, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,246 | Feb 21, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Nov 9, 1995 | |
| Fisher Co Fire | 1,034 | Mar 28, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Feb 25, 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.