Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 850 acres in Elk County, Kansas, in 1998. It was discovered on April 14, 1998.
- Size
- 850 acres
- Discovered
- April 14, 1998
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,280 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.474, -96.208.
The record
- Reported final size
- 850 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,280 acres
- Discovered
- April 14, 1998
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kansas
- County
- Elk County
- Reporting unit
- Elk County
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3747409620819980414
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- KS-EK406-19980414
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 Kansas in 19984
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Annual Bur Fire | 60,063 | Apr 1, 1998 | |
| East Bg Salt Fire | 3,506 | Apr 17, 1998 | |
| Gatton Fire | 2,620 | Sep 25, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,009 | Apr 2, 1998 |
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.