Black Bay Fire
The Black Bay Fire burned 1,500 acres in Louisiana, in 1998. It was discovered on December 30, 1998. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,500 acres
- Discovered
- December 30, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,760 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.986, -93.756.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,760 acres
- Discovered
- December 30, 1998, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2997709375619981230
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1998LASBR4089
- Note on the perimeter
- Many recent burned fires in area incl. w/i this fires boundary burned diff times.
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 Louisiana in 19988
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 1 RX Fire | 8,911 | Oct 30, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,145 | Feb 9, 1998 | |
| Unit 4 Fire | 2,500 | Mar 4, 1998 | Human |
| Unit 4 RX Fire | 2,000 | Aug 2, 1998 | Natural |
| Unit 4 Cd Fire | 1,728 | Nov 4, 1998 | |
| Unit 7 Fire | 1,626 | Jan 19, 1998 | |
| Rabbit Fire | 1,075 | Jul 31, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 151 | Aug 1, 1998 | Human |
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.