OGEMAW16 Fire
The OGEMAW16 Fire burned 1,238 acres in Ogemaw County, Michigan, in 1998. It was discovered on July 21, 1998, and contained on July 22, 1998.
- Size
- 1,238 acres
- Discovered
- July 21, 1998
- Contained
- July 22, 1998
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,391 acres. Point of origin as reported, 44.471, -84.340.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,238 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,391 acres
- Discovered
- July 21, 1998
- Contained
- July 22, 1998
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Michigan
- County
- Ogemaw County
- Reporting unit
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MI4447108431319980721
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- MI-OGEMAW16-19980721
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 Michigan in 19981
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Camp Faunce Fire | 1,832 | May 17, 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.