Wildfires of 1997

Fire 150197

1997South CarolinaOther fire

The Fire 150197 burned 1,423 acres in South Carolina, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to April 15, 1997.

Size
1,423 acres
Ignition
April 15, 1997

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,423 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.565, -80.204.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,423 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 15, 1997
State
South Carolina
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
SC3456108020119970415
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
Transitional

Other large fires in South Carolina in 19976

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire3,150Mar 10, 1997Human
Murrell Fire2,765Mar 31, 1997Human
Fire 1202971,448Feb 27, 1997
Fire 502971,319Feb 5, 1997
Fire 1403971,069Jan 18, 1997
Fire 1301971,024Jan 14, 1997

Every fire of 1997 South Carolina 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.