Wildfires of 1998

Tnc Fire

1998NebraskaWildfire

The Tnc Fire burned 3,600 acres in Nebraska, in 1998. It was discovered on April 10, 1998, and contained on April 11, 1998. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
3,600 acres
Discovered
April 10, 1998
Contained
April 11, 1998
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,680 acres. Point of origin as reported, 42.867, -100.300.

The record

Reported final size
3,600 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,680 acres
Discovered
April 10, 1998, 3:30 p.m. local time
Contained
April 11, 1998, 12:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Nebraska
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Fort Niobrara National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4284210022519980410
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1998NEFNR6020

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 Nebraska in 19984

FireAcresStartCause
Sugarloaf Fire3,700Aug 24, 1998Natural
Murphy Fire2,200Sep 9, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire1,500Nov 14, 1998
Orvin Fire1,000Aug 24, 1998Natural

Every fire of 1998 Nebraska 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. 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.