Wildfires of 1997

Comanche RX Fire

1997OklahomaOther fire

The Comanche RX Fire burned 4,743 acres in Oklahoma, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to March 26, 1997.

Size
4,743 acres
Ignition
March 26, 1997

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,743 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.761, -98.708.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,743 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
March 26, 1997
State
Oklahoma
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3476109870819970326
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
36 std.

Other large fires in Oklahoma in 19973

FireAcresStartCause
Buoy Line Fire11,000Mar 6, 1997Human
Unnamed Fire1,920Apr 3, 1997Human
Elk Mountain RX Fire1,400Mar 19, 1997

Every fire of 1997 Oklahoma fire history

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.