Wildfires of 1999

Moore 3 Fire

1999TexasWildfire

The Moore 3 Fire burned 1,013 acres in Texas, in 1999. It was discovered on October 6, 1999.

Size
1,013 acres
Discovered
October 6, 1999
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,010 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.726, -101.581.

The record

Reported final size
1,013 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,010 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,013 acres
Discovered
October 6, 1999
Cause
Undetermined
State
Texas
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
National Park Service
Unit
TXLAP
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
1999-TXLAP-009938
MTBS fire identifier
TX3572610158119991006
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS-LFDB-244
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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 Texas in 199912

FireAcresStartCause
Channing Fire30,000Oct 30, 1999Human
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

Every fire of 1999 Texas fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.