Westside Fire
The Westside Fire burned 17,835 acres in Oklahoma, in 1996. It was discovered on January 25, 1996, and contained on February 1, 1996.
- Size
- 17,835 acres
- Discovered
- January 25, 1996
- Contained
- February 1, 1996
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,704 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.784, -98.808.
The record
- Reported final size
- 17,835 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,704 acres
- Discovered
- January 25, 1996, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- February 1, 1996, 12:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Oklahoma
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3477809878919960125
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1996OKWMR2280
- Note on the perimeter
- Trying single scene since dnbr wasnt looking very good and no forest areas seem to have burned.
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 70,000 | Feb 22, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,489 | Mar 25, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,166 | Mar 25, 1996 | |
| Turnpike Mvd Fire | 5,911 | Feb 14, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,120 | Feb 12, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,286 | Mar 25, 1996 | |
| Cody Fire | 4,000 | Feb 18, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,587 | Mar 25, 1996 | |
| Springer Fire | 3,119 | Feb 23, 1996 | Human |
| Lakemurray Fire | 2,584 | Feb 23, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,505 | Feb 14, 1996 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,326 | Feb 22, 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.