Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Virginia, in 1997. It was discovered on November 28, 1997. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- November 28, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 38.455, -78.538.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- November 28, 1997
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Virginia
- Reporting unit
- Virginia Department of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- SWRA_VA_4445
Nearby
Sources
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.