Wildfires of 1997

Unnamed Fire

1997VirginiaWildfire

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.