Unit 4 RX Fire
The Unit 4 RX Fire burned 2,000 acres in Louisiana, in 1998. It was discovered on August 2, 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to December 22, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,000 acres
- Discovered
- August 2, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,703 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.843, -93.489.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,703 acres
- Discovered
- August 2, 1998, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 22, 1998
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2986309355619981222
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1998LASBR4903
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 Cd Fire | 1,728 | Nov 4, 1998 | |
| Unit 7 Fire | 1,626 | Jan 19, 1998 | |
| Black Bay Fire | 1,500 | Dec 30, 1998 | Human |
| 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.