Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 33,000 acres in Nebraska, in 1995. It was discovered on September 5, 1995.
- Size
- 33,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 27,229 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.366, -100.991.
The record
- Reported final size
- 33,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 27,229 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 1995
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Nebraska
- Reporting unit
- Nebraska Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NE4136610099119950905
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- NE-97-19950905
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 Nebraska in 19955
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 7,200 | Feb 24, 1995 | |
| Good Friday Fire | 6,885 | Apr 15, 1995 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,500 | Aug 18, 1995 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,000 | Feb 24, 1995 | |
| Snakeriver Fire | 1,000 | Sep 3, 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.