Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,540 acres in Marshall County, Minnesota, in 2000. It was discovered on April 21, 2000. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,540 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 2000
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,916 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.505, -96.095.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,540 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,916 acres
- Discovered
- April 21, 2000
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Marshall County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4852109610220000421
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0349-925461
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 Minnesota in 200012
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 9,190 | Apr 23, 2000 | |
| Carlos Edge Fire | 8,513 | Oct 19, 2000 | Human |
| RL208 Fire | 5,120 | Mar 17, 2000 | Human |
| Unit 25 Fire | 3,409 | Mar 30, 2000 | |
| RL207 Fire | 3,250 | Mar 18, 2000 | Human |
| RL205 Fire | 2,200 | Mar 5, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,020 | May 3, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,000 | Mar 1, 2000 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,955 | May 21, 2000 | |
| RL206 Fire | 1,920 | Mar 17, 2000 | Human |
| East Pool L Fire | 1,851 | Oct 11, 2000 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,849 | Oct 19, 2000 |
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.