Wildfires of 2003

Unnamed Fire

2003Clark County, KansasWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Clark County, Kansas, in 2003. It was discovered on August 18, 2003.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
August 18, 2003
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,471 acres. Point of origin as reported, 37.351, -100.109.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,471 acres
Discovered
August 18, 2003
Cause
Undetermined
State
Kansas
County
Clark County
Reporting unit
Clark County
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
KS3735110011020030818
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
KS-CA301-20030818
Note on the perimeter
Fire in adjacent county(Meade) southern fire did not meet criteria

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 Kansas in 20036

FireAcresStartCause
Tapr 03 Fire6,560Mar 22, 2003
Unnamed Fire5,104Mar 24, 2003
Unnamed Fire4,674Apr 12, 2003
Unnamed Fire4,000Apr 11, 2003
Switzer G Fire1,281Apr 11, 2003
Miller B C Fire1,200Apr 9, 2003

Every fire of 2003 Kansas fire history

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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.