Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 500 acres in Kentucky, in 1999. It was discovered on November 17, 1999. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 500 acres
- Discovered
- November 17, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,703 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.364, -83.394.
The record
- Reported final size
- 500 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,703 acres
- Discovered
- November 17, 1999
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Kentucky
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3736908337619991117
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- STATE_KY_13463
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 Kentucky in 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 17,323 | Nov 16, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,000 | Nov 8, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,748 | Nov 16, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,200 | Nov 21, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,169 | Nov 21, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,000 | Nov 12, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,575 | Nov 12, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,500 | Nov 11, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,500 | Nov 14, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,500 | Nov 11, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,241 | Nov 21, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,100 | Nov 12, 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. 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.