Wildfires of 1997

Unit 2 RX Fire

1997LouisianaOther fire

The Unit 2 RX Fire burned 5,835 acres in Louisiana, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to September 3, 1997.

Size
5,835 acres
Ignition
September 3, 1997

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,835 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 29.856, -93.499.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,835 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
September 3, 1997
State
Louisiana
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
LA2985609349919970903
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

Other large fires in Louisiana in 19977

FireAcresStartCause
Kisatchie Hills Fire3,134Sep 14, 1997Human
Unnamed Fire3,010Nov 2, 1997
Grey Ditch Fire2,000Sep 30, 1997Human
Unnamed Fire1,765Sep 15, 1997
Unnamed Fire1,586Sep 30, 1997
Bayou Fire1,200Jul 24, 1997Natural
Unnamed Fire1,097Aug 30, 1997

Every fire of 1997 Louisiana 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.