Rag Fire
The Rag Fire burned 1,200 acres in Louisiana, in 2000. It was discovered on June 21, 2000. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,200 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 947 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.852, -93.528.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,200 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 947 acres
- Discovered
- June 21, 2000, 4:30 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2986409352320000621
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2000LASBR4349
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 Louisiana in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 12,877 | Sep 5, 2000 | Human |
| RX 3 Fire | 7,392 | Jan 26, 2000 | |
| RX 1 A Fire | 3,799 | Feb 1, 2000 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,922 | Sep 5, 2000 | Human |
| Marso Trac Fire | 2,709 | Jan 26, 2000 | |
| Longleaf Vista Fire | 2,500 | Jul 10, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,128 | Aug 31, 2000 | |
| Unit 1 B Fire | 2,031 | Jan 15, 2000 | |
| Overboard Fire | 1,775 | Jul 10, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,302 | Oct 17, 2000 | |
| Old North Fire | 1,200 | Jan 24, 2000 | Human |
| Longleaf Vista Fire | 1,000 | Mar 8, 2000 | 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.