Unit 4 Fire
The Unit 4 Fire burned 2,500 acres in Texas, in 1999. It was discovered on November 12, 1999, and contained on November 15, 1999. The cause was recorded as smoking.
- Size
- 2,500 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 1999
- Contained
- November 15, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,061 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.700, -94.083.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,061 acres
- Discovered
- November 12, 1999, 2:15 p.m. local time
- Contained
- November 15, 1999, 8:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Smoking
- State
- Texas
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- McFaddin National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX2967009409319991112
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-1999TXMCR2941
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Channing Fire | 30,000 | Oct 30, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,927 | Nov 1, 1999 | |
| Williams Ranch Fire | 6,213 | Oct 19, 1999 | Human |
| Giww Arson Fire | 5,000 | Dec 28, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,967 | Aug 10, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,478 | Nov 19, 1999 | |
| Unit 12 Fire | 3,874 | Jan 31, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,527 | Nov 13, 1999 | |
| North Unit Fire | 3,500 | Nov 12, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,906 | Sep 9, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,482 | Jul 25, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,230 | Aug 31, 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.