Wildfires of 1999

Unnamed Fire

1999NebraskaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 6,400 acres in Nebraska, in 1999. It was discovered on November 18, 1999.

Size
6,400 acres
Discovered
November 18, 1999
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,473 acres. Point of origin as reported, 40.801, -100.978.

The record

Reported final size
6,400 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,473 acres
Discovered
November 18, 1999
Cause
Undetermined
State
Nebraska
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4080110097819991118
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
NE-101-19991118

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 Nebraska in 19997

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire74,500Mar 16, 1999Human
Unnamed Fire14,000Feb 9, 1999
Unnamed Fire11,520Nov 4, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,830Oct 27, 1999
Unnamed Fire2,080Oct 5, 1999
Unnamed Fire1,920Oct 24, 1999
Unnamed Fire1,500Nov 13, 1999

Every fire of 1999 Nebraska fire history

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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.