Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,090 acres in Cherokee County, Oklahoma, in 1995. It was discovered on March 21, 1995, and contained on March 21, 1995. MTBS dates its ignition to April 1, 1995.
- Size
- 1,090 acres
- Discovered
- March 21, 1995
- Contained
- March 21, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,010 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.022, -95.144.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,090 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,010 acres
- Discovered
- March 21, 1995, 8:57 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 1, 1995
- Contained
- March 21, 1995, 10:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Cherokee County
- Reporting unit
- Oklahoma Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3602009513519950401
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SCHMIDT_40013745
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 3,920 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,041 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Lick Hollow Fire | 2,770 | Mar 19, 1995 | Human |
| F128 Fire | 2,310 | Mar 21, 1995 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,200 | Feb 19, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,109 | Apr 1, 1995 | |
| Jonestract Fire | 2,085 | Mar 1, 1995 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,992 | Feb 23, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,820 | Feb 25, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,787 | Apr 1, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,433 | Jan 25, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Mar 23, 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.