Wildfires of 1999

Channing Fire

1999TexasWildfire

The Channing Fire burned 30,000 acres in Texas, in 1999. It was discovered on October 30, 1999. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
30,000 acres
Discovered
October 30, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 36.094, -101.832.

The record

Reported final size
30,000 acres
Discovered
October 30, 1999
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Texas
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_1999_TX-TXS-99049

Other large fires in Texas in 199912

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire8,927Nov 1, 1999
Williams Ranch Fire6,213Oct 19, 1999Human
Giww Arson Fire5,000Dec 28, 1999Human
Unnamed Fire4,967Aug 10, 1999
Unnamed Fire4,478Nov 19, 1999
Unit 12 Fire3,874Jan 31, 1999
Unnamed Fire3,527Nov 13, 1999
North Unit Fire3,500Nov 12, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,906Sep 9, 1999
Unit 4 Fire2,500Nov 12, 1999Human
Unnamed Fire2,482Jul 25, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,230Aug 31, 1999

Every fire of 1999 Texas fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.