Wildfires of 1999

Unnamed Fire

1999GeorgiaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,022 acres in Georgia, in 1999. It was discovered on April 12, 1999. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,022 acres
Discovered
April 12, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,588 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.687, -82.176.

The record

Reported final size
1,022 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,588 acres
Discovered
April 12, 1999
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Georgia
Reporting unit
Georgia Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
GA3165508218519990412
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SWRA_GA_62833
Note on the perimeter
Vegetation is a mix of planted pine scrub and herbaceous. A lot of soil disturbance.

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 Georgia in 199911

FireAcresStartCause
Hickory Is Fire14,128Apr 11, 1999Human
Billys Island Fire3,106Feb 12, 1999
Comp 1312 Fire2,406Feb 16, 1999
Pigeon Roost Fire2,048Nov 13, 1999Human
Turkey Stamp Fire2,040Nov 13, 1999Human
C 15 Fire1,399Feb 20, 1999
Unnamed Fire1,302Jul 26, 1999
Unnamed Fire1,281Dec 4, 1999Human
Mitchell Fire1,166Jul 20, 1999
Big Creek Fire1,010Nov 16, 1999Human
Unnamed Fire828Mar 24, 1999Human

Every fire of 1999 Georgia fire history

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.