Wildfires of 1998

Units 1617 Fire

1998MinnesotaOther fire

The Units 1617 Fire burned 4,651 acres in Minnesota, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to April 12, 1998.

Size
4,651 acres
Ignition
April 12, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,651 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 45.514, -93.707.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,651 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
April 12, 1998
State
Minnesota
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4551409370619980412
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
54 std.

Other large fires in Minnesota in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
RL3 Fire6,000Mar 16, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire5,140Apr 25, 1998Human
16 A Fire4,250Apr 24, 1998
Unnamed Fire1,920Apr 23, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire1,280Apr 24, 1998Human
Units 23 A Fire1,265Apr 23, 1998
Lee Fire1,135Apr 23, 1998
RL336 Fire1,122Apr 25, 1998Human
Andreasen Fire1,002Apr 22, 1998
Unnamed Fire1,000Mar 30, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire827Apr 25, 1998Human
West Skunk Fire750Mar 19, 1998Human

Every fire of 1998 Minnesota fire history

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. 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.