Wildfires of 2001

Unnamed Fire

2001TennesseeWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,560 acres in Tennessee, in 2001. It was discovered on November 10, 2001. MTBS dates its ignition to November 1, 2001. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,560 acres
Discovered
November 10, 2001
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,692 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.307, -85.637.

The record

Reported final size
1,560 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,692 acres
Discovered
November 10, 2001
Ignition (MTBS)
November 1, 2001
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Tennessee
Reporting unit
Tennessee Division of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
TN3531408562620011101
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SWRA_TN_12569

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 Tennessee in 200112

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire4,646Dec 22, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire3,200Nov 29, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire2,214Nov 12, 2001Human
Green Mtn Fire2,200Nov 10, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire2,080Oct 31, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire2,035Dec 30, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire1,312Nov 10, 2001
Unnamed Fire1,230Nov 13, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire1,120Oct 31, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire1,100Nov 4, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire1,050Nov 4, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire924Nov 4, 2001Human

Every fire of 2001 Tennessee 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.