Grey Ditch Fire
The Grey Ditch Fire burned 2,000 acres in Louisiana, in 1997. It was discovered on September 30, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 2,000 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,449 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.867, -93.776.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,449 acres
- Discovered
- September 30, 1997, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2991009376219970930
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1997LASBR4254
- Note on the perimeter
- This is in an area often burned and evidence of recent burns throughout area.
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 Louisiana in 19977
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 2 RX Fire | 5,835 | Sep 3, 1997 | |
| Kisatchie Hills Fire | 3,134 | Sep 14, 1997 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,010 | Nov 2, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,765 | Sep 15, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,586 | Sep 30, 1997 | |
| Bayou Fire | 1,200 | Jul 24, 1997 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,097 | Aug 30, 1997 |
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.