Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 6,000 acres in Comanche County, Kansas, in 1997. It was discovered on February 17, 1997.
- Size
- 6,000 acres
- Discovered
- February 17, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,473 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.402, -99.434.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,473 acres
- Discovered
- February 17, 1997
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Comanche County
- Reporting unit
- Comanche County
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3740209943419970217
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- KS-CM404-19970217
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 Kansas in 19973
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 5,000 | Mar 21, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,051 | Mar 27, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,267 | Mar 24, 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.