Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,509 acres in Tyler County, Texas, in 2000. It was discovered on September 5, 2000, and contained on September 6, 2000. MTBS dates its ignition to September 28, 2000. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,509 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 2000
- Contained
- September 6, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,225 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.644, -94.152.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,509 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,225 acres
- Discovered
- September 5, 2000
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 28, 2000
- Contained
- September 6, 2000, 6:04 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Texas
- County
- Tyler County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- TX3065109414820000928
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-TX01430600-11163493
- Note on the perimeter
- Fire burned over shrubland herbasious and deciduous cover types.Could not get moderate or high thresholds due to herbasios areas making everything high.
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 Texas in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 47,000 | May 4, 2000 | Natural |
| Potter #2 Fire | 20,000 | Feb 22, 2000 | Human |
| Naravista Fire | 20,000 | Feb 25, 2000 | Human |
| Idaho Fire | 16,000 | Feb 25, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 15,864 | Sep 1, 2000 | Human |
| E Whites 2 Fire | 13,000 | Aug 20, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,306 | Mar 9, 2000 | |
| Jackson Dit Fire | 5,398 | Oct 17, 2000 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,205 | Sep 6, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,093 | May 27, 2000 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,000 | Sep 1, 2000 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Aug 22, 2000 | Natural |
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.