Junior Fire
The Junior Fire burned 1,092 acres in Mississippi, in 1996. It was discovered on April 26, 1996, and contained on April 27, 1996. The cause was recorded as power generation/transmission/distribution.
- Size
- 1,092 acres
- Discovered
- April 26, 1996
- Contained
- April 27, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 603 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.578, -89.410.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,092 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 603 acres
- Discovered
- April 26, 1996, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 27, 1996, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Power generation/transmission/distribution
- State
- Mississippi
- Land ownership at origin
- State or Private
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Mississippi
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3458308938619960426
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-313593
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 Mississippi in 199610
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 5,208 | Feb 15, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,152 | Apr 10, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,109 | Mar 13, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,388 | Mar 13, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,620 | Apr 9, 1996 | Human |
| Cpt G 05 Fire | 1,342 | Oct 16, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,130 | Apr 11, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,071 | Mar 22, 1996 | |
| Range 48 Fire | 530 | Feb 24, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 500 | Apr 17, 1996 | Human |
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.