Plains Fire
The Plains Fire burned 2,880 acres in Louisiana, in 2002. It was discovered on May 26, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,880 acres
- Discovered
- May 26, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,439 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.840, -93.713.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,880 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,439 acres
- Discovered
- May 26, 2002, 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
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2985009370120020526
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2002LASBR4757
- Note on the perimeter
- High moisture and clouds in burned area.
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 20028
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayou Complex | 5,414 | Jul 22, 2002 | Natural |
| G 1 2 3 Fire | 3,437 | Jan 27, 2002 | |
| H I J Fire | 3,148 | Feb 17, 2002 | |
| Grand B 1920 Fire | 1,880 | Feb 25, 2002 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,783 | Nov 24, 2002 | |
| Wc 4 Fire | 1,574 | Feb 13, 2002 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,517 | Dec 2, 2002 | |
| Groundhog Fire | 460 | Feb 3, 2002 | Human |
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.