Wildfires of 1995

Unnamed Fire

1995Suffolk County, New YorkWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Suffolk County, New York, in 1995. It was discovered on August 21, 1995. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
August 21, 1995
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 40.832, -72.951.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Discovered
August 21, 1995
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
New York
County
Suffolk County
Reporting unit
New York Forest Rangers
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
SFO-1995NYNYSNYS-1995-358

Other large fires in New York in 19951

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire5,050Aug 24, 1995Human

Every fire of 1995 New York fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.