Os 5 Fire
The Os 5 Fire burned 3,531 acres in Louisiana, in 2003. MTBS dates its ignition to August 19, 2003.
- Size
- 3,531 acres
- Ignition
- August 19, 2003
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,531 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 29.911, -93.470.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,531 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 19, 2003
- State
- Louisiana
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- LA2991109347020030819
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Note on the perimeter
- Manual recoding applied to burn severity map to correct unburned areas (southwest-unburn location).Burn scar in southwest corner is better visible in perimeter scene which was not appropriate for thresholding due to flooding issues within burned area.
Other large fires in Louisiana in 200312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 11,423 | Jan 3, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,410 | Dec 5, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,869 | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,806 | Nov 19, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,401 | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| Unit 6 04 1 Fire | 3,871 | Dec 17, 2003 | |
| OS5 Fire | 3,492 | Aug 19, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,110 | Oct 18, 2003 | |
| Unit 2-04-P Fire | 2,886 | Oct 16, 2003 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,851 | Jan 19, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,542 | Feb 4, 2003 | |
| G 4 G 5 Fire | 1,899 | Nov 21, 2003 |
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. 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.