Wildfires of 1996

Rocky Hollow Complex

1996MissouriWildfire

The Rocky Hollow Complex burned 800 acres in Missouri, in 1996. It was discovered on February 11, 1996, and contained on February 11, 1996. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
800 acres
Discovered
February 11, 1996
Contained
February 11, 1996
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,079 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.822, -92.083.

The record

Reported final size
800 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,079 acres
Discovered
February 11, 1996, 9:30 a.m. local time
Contained
February 11, 1996, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Missouri
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Mark Twain National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Part of
Rocky Hollow Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MO3682809208119960211
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-313821

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 Missouri in 19963

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire1,355Apr 19, 1996
Unnamed Fire1,348Apr 19, 1996
Unnamed Fire1,304Apr 19, 1996

Every fire of 1996 Missouri 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.