Big Burn Fire
The Big Burn Fire burned 1,639 acres in Wisconsin, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to May 21, 1997.
- Size
- 1,639 acres
- Ignition
- May 21, 1997
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,639 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 44.167, -90.185.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,639 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 21, 1997
- State
- Wisconsin
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- WI4417009018519970521
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
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. 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.