Fire 19990505
The Fire 19990505 burned 1,752 acres in South Carolina, in 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to March 12, 1999.
- Size
- 1,752 acres
- Ignition
- March 12, 1999
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,752 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.628, -80.242.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,752 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 12, 1999
- State
- South Carolina
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SC3462808024219990312
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- Not the best image pair for matching phenology
Other large fires in South Carolina in 19997
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Impact Fire | 2,484 | Apr 11, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,948 | Mar 28, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,237 | Apr 22, 1999 | |
| Fire 19990806 | 1,169 | Feb 14, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,059 | Mar 28, 1999 | |
| Fire 19991105 | 1,041 | Feb 22, 1999 | |
| Brick Church Fire | 904 | Mar 30, 1999 | Human |
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.