Wildfires of 1995

Unnamed Fire

1995NebraskaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 3,500 acres in Nebraska, in 1995. It was discovered on August 18, 1995.

Size
3,500 acres
Discovered
August 18, 1995
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,145 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.155, -100.459.

The record

Reported final size
3,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,145 acres
Discovered
August 18, 1995
Cause
Undetermined
State
Nebraska
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4115510045919950818
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
NE-106-19950818

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

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire33,000Sep 5, 1995
Unnamed Fire7,200Feb 24, 1995
Good Friday Fire6,885Apr 15, 1995Natural
Unnamed Fire2,000Feb 24, 1995
Snakeriver Fire1,000Sep 3, 1995Natural

Every fire of 1995 Nebraska 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.