Wildfires of 1998

Unnamed Prescribed Fire

1998New JerseyPrescribed fire

The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 1,115 acres in New Jersey, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to March 28, 1998.

Size: 1,115 acres
Ignition: March 28, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,115 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 39.903, -74.514.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS: 1,115 acres
Ignition (MTBS): March 28, 1998
State: New Jersey
Incident type: Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier: NJ3990307451419980328
MTBS assessment: Initial (SS)

Nearby

Presidential Lakes Estates, NJ3 miles west of the fire
Country Lake Estates, NJ3 miles northwest of the fire
Browns Mills, NJ6 miles northwest of the fire
Cedar Glen Lakes, NJ7 miles northeast of the fire
Magnolia, NJ8 miles northwest of the fire
Crestwood Village, NJ9 miles east of the fire

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.