Wildfires of 2000

Unnamed Fire

2000ArkansasWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,401 acres in Arkansas, in 2000. It was discovered on August 30, 2000. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,401 acres
Discovered
August 30, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,430 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.109, -92.933.

The record

Reported final size
1,401 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,430 acres
Discovered
August 30, 2000
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Arkansas
Reporting unit
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AR3510309295320000830
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SWRA_AR_27000

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 Arkansas in 20003

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire15,308Aug 13, 2000
Unnamed Fire3,940Oct 23, 2000
Unnamed Fire2,041Sep 1, 2000

Every fire of 2000 Arkansas 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.