Chippewa Prairie Fire
The Chippewa Prairie Fire burned 3,191 acres in Chippewa County, Minnesota, in 2003. It was discovered on April 12, 2003. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 3,191 acres
- Discovered
- April 12, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,065 acres. Point of origin as reported, 45.128, -95.983.
The record
- Reported final size
- 3,191 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,065 acres
- Discovered
- April 12, 2003
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Chippewa County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4514609601020030412
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0349-1961
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 Minnesota in 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Reiner 36 Fire | 38,753 | Apr 9, 2003 | Human |
| Canada Fire | 15,000 | Mar 29, 2003 | Human |
| Caribou Fire | 12,680 | Apr 10, 2003 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,529 | May 1, 2003 | |
| Units 37 38 39 A Fire | 4,878 | Apr 23, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,991 | May 16, 2003 | |
| Rothsay Fire | 2,855 | Oct 7, 2003 | Human |
| Units 34 33 W Fire | 2,646 | Apr 10, 2003 | |
| Elm Lake Fire | 2,354 | Oct 22, 2003 | |
| Tamarac Fire | 2,220 | Apr 30, 2003 | |
| Agassiz Fire | 2,150 | May 3, 2003 | Human |
| Gully Fire | 2,140 | Apr 9, 2003 | 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.