Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 12,000 acres in Shawnee County, Kansas, in 1996. It was discovered on February 24, 1996.
- Size
- 12,000 acres
- Discovered
- February 24, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,577 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.077, -95.989.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,577 acres
- Discovered
- February 24, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Shawnee County
- Reporting unit
- Shawnee County
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3907709598919960224
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- KS-SN303-19960224
- Note on the perimeter
- It is a little ways west of fire point. No distinguishable fire close to fire point.
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 Kansas in 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 55,000 | Feb 21, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 23,000 | Apr 18, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 14,857 | Apr 18, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,000 | Apr 11, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,000 | Apr 11, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,000 | Apr 2, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,083 | Apr 17, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,600 | Apr 11, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,079 | Apr 11, 1996 | |
| Gatton Fire | 6,000 | Apr 25, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Jan 28, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,288 | Feb 24, 1996 |
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.