Duck Fire
The Duck Fire burned 1,950 acres in Louisiana, in 1999. It was discovered on October 24, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,950 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,732 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.851, -93.567.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,950 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,732 acres
- Discovered
- October 24, 1999, 8:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2984509359019991024
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1999LASBR4679
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 Louisiana in 19998
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gray Fire | 5,320 | Oct 24, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,806 | Jan 24, 1999 | |
| Unit F 3 Fire | 2,662 | Nov 4, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,133 | Nov 8, 1999 | |
| Unit H Fire | 2,010 | Nov 2, 1999 | |
| Units F 2 I Fire | 1,531 | Feb 19, 1999 | |
| Starks Fire | 1,250 | Sep 2, 1999 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,198 | Jan 24, 1999 |
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.