Wildfires of 2000

MAC2 Fire

2000North DakotaWildfire

The MAC2 Fire burned 1,000 acres in North Dakota, in 2000. It was discovered on March 25, 2000, and contained on March 25, 2000. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
March 25, 2000
Contained
March 25, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,019 acres. Point of origin as reported, 46.390, -100.600.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,019 acres
Discovered
March 25, 2000, 3:00 p.m. local time
Contained
March 25, 2000, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
State
North Dakota
Land ownership at origin
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Reporting unit
Standing Rock Agency
Agency
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ND4639110059520000325
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-324634

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 North Dakota in 20004

FireAcresStartCause
Red Cross Fire4,000Apr 4, 2000Human
Neugerfire Fire1,900Sep 12, 2000Human
Talkington 1 Fire1,866Aug 26, 2000Natural
Sweat Fire1,242Aug 2, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 North Dakota 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.