Wildfires of 2000

Red Cross Fire

2000North DakotaWildfire

The Red Cross Fire burned 4,000 acres in North Dakota, in 2000. It was discovered on April 4, 2000, and contained on April 4, 2000. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
4,000 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2000
Contained
April 4, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,010 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.416, -100.281.

The record

Reported final size
4,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,010 acres
Discovered
April 4, 2000, 1:00 p.m. local time
Contained
April 4, 2000, 9:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
North Dakota
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
J. Clark Salyer National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
ND4841010028020000404
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2000NDJCR6192

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
Neugerfire Fire1,900Sep 12, 2000Human
Talkington 1 Fire1,866Aug 26, 2000Natural
Sweat Fire1,242Aug 2, 2000Human
MAC2 Fire1,000Mar 25, 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.