Seabee Fire
The Seabee Fire burned 1,090 acres in Perry County, Mississippi, in 2003. It was discovered on October 29, 2003. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 1,090 acres
- Discovered
- October 29, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 698 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.092, -89.108.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,090 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 698 acres
- Discovered
- October 29, 2003, 11:12 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Mississippi
- County
- Perry County
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Mississippi
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3110608910920031029
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-393207
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.