Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,160 acres in Baldwin County, Alabama, in 2003. It was discovered on May 29, 2003, and contained on June 4, 2003. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 1,160 acres
- Discovered
- May 29, 2003
- Contained
- June 4, 2003
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,279 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.437, -87.421.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,160 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,279 acres
- Discovered
- May 29, 2003, 11:40 a.m. local time
- Contained
- June 4, 2003, 2:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Alabama
- County
- Baldwin County
- Reporting unit
- Alabama Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AL3043608742120030529
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2003AFSBWT-20030529-001
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.