Wildfires of 1998

Fire 980803

1998South CarolinaOther fire

The Fire 980803 burned 1,778 acres in South Carolina, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to March 2, 1998.

Size: 1,778 acres
Ignition: March 2, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,778 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.602, -80.194.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 1,778 acres
Ignition (MTBS): March 2, 1998
State: South Carolina
Incident type: Other fire
MTBS fire identifier: SC3460108019419980302
MTBS assessment: Initial

Other large fires in South Carolina in 19981

Fire	Acres	Start	Cause
Fire 981406	1,891	Apr 2, 1998

Every fire of 1998 South Carolina fire history

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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.