Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996NebraskaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 5,000 acres in Nebraska, in 1996. It was discovered on August 2, 1996.

Size
5,000 acres
Discovered
August 2, 1996
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 14,274 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.319, -103.857.

The record

Reported final size
5,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
14,274 acres
Discovered
August 2, 1996
Cause
Undetermined
State
Nebraska
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4231910385719960802
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
NE-2-19960802

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.