Knight Fire
The Knight Fire burned 3,000 acres in Texas, in 1996. It was discovered on April 1, 1996, and contained on April 2, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 3,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1996
- Contained
- April 2, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,423 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.600, -94.746.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,423 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,425 acres
- Discovered
- April 1, 1996, 1:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- April 2, 1996, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Texas
- Land ownership at origin
- Other Federal
- Reporting unit
- Big Thicket National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- TXBTP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1996-TXBTP-009620
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3055609474619960401
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-267348
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 Texas in 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pitchfork Fire | 27,223 | Apr 24, 1996 | |
| Triangle Fire | 26,294 | Mar 23, 1996 | |
| Buckle L Fire | 20,354 | Mar 23, 1996 | |
| Henrietta Fire | 13,702 | Mar 16, 1996 | |
| North Memphis Fire | 13,166 | Apr 25, 1996 | |
| Potter 1 Fire | 13,000 | Mar 23, 1996 | Human |
| Poolville Fire | 12,201 | Mar 16, 1996 | |
| Highway 70 Fire | 10,771 | Feb 27, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,487 | Feb 1, 1996 | |
| MCFWEST3 Fire | 5,388 | Jan 24, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,380 | Mar 26, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,367 | Mar 16, 1996 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.