Williams Ranch Fire
The Williams Ranch Fire burned 6,213 acres in Texas, in 1999. It was discovered on October 19, 1999. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 6,213 acres
- Discovered
- October 19, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,225 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.107, -98.796.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,213 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,225 acres
- Discovered
- October 19, 1999
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3110709879619991019
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS-LFDB-585
- Note on the perimeter
- pre scene not available
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 | |
| 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 | |
| Unit 4 Fire | 2,500 | Nov 12, 1999 | Human |
| 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.