Wildfires of 2000

Rabbit Fire

2000MissouriWildfire

The Rabbit Fire burned 1,460 acres in Missouri, in 2000. It was discovered on April 5, 2000, and contained on April 6, 2000. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,460 acres
Discovered
April 5, 2000
Contained
April 6, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,373 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.818, -92.069.

The record

Reported final size
1,460 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,373 acres
Discovered
April 5, 2000, 10:00 a.m. local time
Contained
April 6, 2000, 2:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Missouri
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
Mark Twain National Forest
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MO3683709207320000405
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-355711
Note on the perimeter
Pre/Post images are 5 years apart. These are the best available images for phenology.

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 Missouri in 20005

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire2,202Mar 23, 2000
Unnamed Fire1,555Feb 20, 2000
Unnamed Fire1,260Apr 8, 2000
Unnamed Fire1,189Apr 8, 2000
Unnamed Fire1,005Sep 19, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Missouri 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.