Wildfires of 2001

Unnamed Fire

2001AlabamaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 740 acres in Alabama, in 2001. It was discovered on January 28, 2001. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
740 acres
Discovered
January 28, 2001
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,355 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.022, -85.483.

The record

Reported final size
740 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,355 acres
Discovered
January 28, 2001
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Alabama
Reporting unit
Alabama Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AL3402108546720010128
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SWRA_AL_48379

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.

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.