Sisters A Fire
The Sisters A Fire burned 5,706 acres in Louisiana, in 2001. It was discovered on June 29, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 5,706 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2001
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,258 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.850, -93.467.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,706 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,258 acres
- Discovered
- June 29, 2001, 1:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Louisiana
- Land ownership at origin
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Reporting unit
- Sabine National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Part of
- Sisters Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2984809348920010629
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2001LASBR4042
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 20016
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sisters B Fire | 7,000 | Jun 27, 2001 | Natural |
| Storm Fire | 2,062 | Jun 21, 2001 | Natural |
| Storm Fire | 1,619 | Jun 21, 2001 | |
| Brokn Gose Fire | 1,450 | Oct 2, 2001 | Human |
| Lost Sboat Fire | 1,380 | Oct 19, 2001 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,276 | Oct 28, 2001 |
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.