Wildfires of 1997

Unnamed Prescribed Fire

1997KansasPrescribed fire

The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 4,385 acres in Kansas, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to April 13, 1997.

Size
4,385 acres
Ignition
April 13, 1997

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,385 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.447, -96.575.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,385 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 13, 1997
State
Kansas
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
KS3844509656319970413
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
NPS Fire perimeter was used available in NPS Wildland fire feature server. Part of the mask areas (look burned areas) is actually has been covered by other fire.

Other large fires in Kansas in 19974

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire6,000Feb 17, 1997
Unnamed Fire5,000Mar 21, 1997
Unnamed Fire2,051Mar 27, 1997
Unnamed Fire1,267Mar 24, 1997

Every fire of 1997 Kansas 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.