Wildfires of 2000

Unnamed Fire

2000GeorgiaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,200 acres in Georgia, in 2000. It was discovered on March 4, 2000. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
2,200 acres
Discovered
March 4, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,770 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.001, -82.569.

The record

Reported final size
2,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,770 acres
Discovered
March 4, 2000, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Georgia
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
GA3099008260520000304
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2000GAOKR4106
Note on the perimeter
Planted Pine.

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 Georgia in 200010

FireAcresStartCause
GA-2 Fire7,800Mar 2, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire4,050Apr 21, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire3,061Mar 28, 2000
Unnamed Fire2,442Mar 4, 2000
Unnamed Fire2,065Mar 2, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire1,895Mar 5, 2000
Unnamed Fire1,182Feb 26, 2000
Unnamed Fire997Jul 23, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire917Jul 17, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire586Mar 11, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 Georgia fire history

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.