Legends Fire
The Legends Fire burned 1,648 acres in South Carolina, in 2002. It was discovered on June 15, 2002. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 1,648 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,666 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.724, -78.978.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,648 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,666 acres
- Discovered
- June 15, 2002
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- South Carolina
- Reporting unit
- South Carolina Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- SC3373607899120020615
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SWRA_SC_69491
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 South Carolina in 20029
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monkey Face Fire | 1,922 | Feb 26, 2002 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,600 | Feb 25, 2002 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,521 | Mar 29, 2002 | |
| 2001 0505 Fire | 1,373 | Feb 13, 2002 | |
| 2002 0901 Fire | 1,149 | Feb 12, 2002 | |
| 2002 1603 Fire | 1,149 | Mar 14, 2002 | |
| 2001 1103 Fire | 1,112 | Feb 11, 2002 | |
| 2002 0803 Fire | 1,055 | Feb 11, 2002 | |
| Wmuc 237802 Fire | 1,014 | Mar 15, 2002 |
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.