Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 12,877 acres in Louisiana, in 2000. It was discovered on September 5, 2000. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 12,877 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 12,491 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.765, -92.646.
The record
- Reported final size
- 12,877 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 12,491 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 2000
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Louisiana
- Reporting unit
- Louisiana Office of Forestry
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA3074709264720000905
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SWRA_LA_19981
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| Rag Fire | 1,200 | Jun 21, 2000 | Human |
| 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.