Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996Atkinson County, GeorgiaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,908 acres in Atkinson County, Georgia, in 1996. It was discovered on February 11, 1996, and contained on March 29, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,908 acres
Discovered
February 11, 1996
Contained
March 29, 1996
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,859 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.258, -82.957.

The record

Reported final size
1,908 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,859 acres
Discovered
February 11, 1996, 12:00 p.m. local time
Contained
March 29, 1996, 4:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Georgia
County
Atkinson County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Georgia Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
GA3128408295319960211
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-GA-ATK-84-2/11/1996-1200
Note on the perimeter
Clearcut.

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 Georgia in 19963

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire2,929Apr 2, 1996
Mitchell Island Fire1,722May 9, 1996
Unnamed Fire1,261Apr 2, 1996

Every fire of 1996 Georgia fire history

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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.