Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 520 acres in Baldwin County, Alabama, in 1996. It was discovered on February 26, 1996. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 520 acres
- Discovered
- February 26, 1996
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,813 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.714, -87.624.
The record
- Reported final size
- 520 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,813 acres
- Discovered
- February 26, 1996, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Baldwin County
- Reporting unit
- Alabama Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AL3070008762319960226
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- AL-BW-1996-57-005
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire perimeter may include pre-fires
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 Alabama in 19966
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,540 | Apr 17, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,479 | Feb 5, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Mar 21, 1996 | Human |
| Fm 96 6 Fire | 1,078 | Nov 16, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,049 | Mar 8, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Feb 14, 1996 | Human |
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.