Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996Adair County, OklahomaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,265 acres in Adair County, Oklahoma, in 1996. It was discovered on February 13, 1996, and contained on February 13, 1996. MTBS dates its ignition to April 3, 1996.

Size
1,265 acres
Discovered
February 13, 1996
Contained
February 13, 1996
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,919 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.095, -94.736.

The record

Reported final size
1,265 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,919 acres
Discovered
February 13, 1996, 11:00 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
April 3, 1996
Contained
February 13, 1996
Cause
Undetermined
State
Oklahoma
County
Adair County
Reporting unit
Oklahoma Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3609209473119960403
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SCHMIDT_40016033

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 Oklahoma in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire70,000Feb 22, 1996
Westside Fire17,835Jan 25, 1996
Unnamed Fire9,489Mar 25, 1996
Unnamed Fire9,166Mar 25, 1996
Turnpike Mvd Fire5,911Feb 14, 1996
Unnamed Fire5,120Feb 12, 1996
Unnamed Fire4,286Mar 25, 1996
Cody Fire4,000Feb 18, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire3,587Mar 25, 1996
Springer Fire3,119Feb 23, 1996Human
Lakemurray Fire2,584Feb 23, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire2,505Feb 14, 1996

Every fire of 1996 Oklahoma 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.