Wildfires of 2000

Unnamed Fire

2000Nacogdoches County, TexasWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,000 acres in Nacogdoches County, Texas, in 2000. It was discovered on August 22, 2000, and contained on September 27, 2000. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
4,000 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2000
Contained
September 27, 2000
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,098 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.531, -94.481.

The record

Reported final size
4,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,098 acres
Discovered
August 22, 2000
Contained
September 27, 2000, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Texas
County
Nacogdoches County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Part of
Chicken Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TX3151809448120000822
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-TX01430600-10461764

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

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire47,000May 4, 2000Natural
Potter #2 Fire20,000Feb 22, 2000Human
Naravista Fire20,000Feb 25, 2000Human
Idaho Fire16,000Feb 25, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire15,864Sep 1, 2000Human
E Whites 2 Fire13,000Aug 20, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire8,306Mar 9, 2000
Jackson Dit Fire5,398Oct 17, 2000
Unnamed Fire5,205Sep 6, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire5,093May 27, 2000
Unnamed Fire5,000Sep 1, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire3,307Mar 9, 2000

Every fire of 2000 Texas 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.