Throckmorton Fire
The Throckmorton Fire burned 10,388 acres in Texas, in 1997. It was discovered on October 13, 1997.
- Size
- 10,388 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,333 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.116, -99.365.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,388 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 10,333 acres
- Discovered
- October 13, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3311609936519971013
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-483
- Note on the perimeter
- TXFS reported ignition date of 10/13/1997. Burn area was visible 10/4/1997.
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 Texas in 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Cow Bay Fire | 10,061 | Sep 22, 1997 | |
| Canadian Fire | 9,572 | Mar 26, 1997 | |
| Grit Road Fire | 4,700 | Oct 20, 1997 | Human |
| Mound Fire | 2,551 | Aug 25, 1997 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,375 | Jan 3, 1997 | |
| Easteasmen Fire | 2,300 | Jul 24, 1997 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,136 | Sep 27, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,796 | Nov 2, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,639 | Aug 17, 1997 | |
| Sea Rim Help Fire | 1,300 | Aug 28, 1997 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,191 | Jul 27, 1997 | |
| Mi C 7 Fire | 1,132 | Sep 9, 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.