Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 600 acres in Aitkin County, Minnesota, in 1997. It was discovered on April 29, 1997. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 600 acres
- Discovered
- April 29, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,305 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.811, -93.483.
The record
- Reported final size
- 600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,305 acres
- Discovered
- April 29, 1997
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Aitkin County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4681009346919970429
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0349-921366
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 Minnesota in 19972
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.