Wildfires of 1998

Unnamed Fire

1998LouisianaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,145 acres in Louisiana, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to February 9, 1998.

Size
4,145 acres
Ignition
February 9, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,145 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 30.747, -93.501.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,145 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
February 9, 1998
State
Louisiana
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3074709350119980209
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
found fire appears same as nearby fire LA-2103S11W-19980209 so assigned same date.

Other large fires in Louisiana in 19988

FireAcresStartCause
Unit 1 RX Fire8,911Oct 30, 1998
Unit 4 Fire2,500Mar 4, 1998Human
Unit 4 RX Fire2,000Aug 2, 1998Natural
Unit 4 Cd Fire1,728Nov 4, 1998
Unit 7 Fire1,626Jan 19, 1998
Black Bay Fire1,500Dec 30, 1998Human
Rabbit Fire1,075Jul 31, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire151Aug 1, 1998Human

Every fire of 1998 Louisiana 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.