Juniperbay Fire
The Juniperbay Fire burned 660 acres in North Carolina, in 1996. It was discovered on June 14, 1996. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 660 acres
- Discovered
- June 14, 1996
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,039 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.383, -76.250.
The record
- Reported final size
- 660 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,039 acres
- Discovered
- June 14, 1996, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- North Carolina
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Swanquarter National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- NC3538707623219960614
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1996NCSWR4545
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.
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.