Wildfires of 2004

Unnamed Fire

2004Kittson County, MinnesotaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 470 acres in Kittson County, Minnesota, in 2004. It was discovered on May 5, 2004. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
470 acres
Discovered
May 5, 2004
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,312 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.954, -96.867.

The record

Reported final size
470 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,312 acres
Discovered
May 5, 2004
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Minnesota
County
Kittson County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MN4895409686720040505
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-MN0349-4551

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 200412

FireAcresStartCause
Louisburgrade Fire7,331Apr 14, 2004Human
Unnamed Fire2,560Apr 18, 2004Human
RL332 Fire1,716May 17, 2004Human
Wui Unit 16 Fire1,592Apr 6, 2004
Gully Fire1,540Apr 27, 2004Human
Unnamed Fire1,500Apr 25, 2004Human
Section 33 Wfu Fire1,435Jul 8, 2004Natural
South Main Road Fire1,385May 6, 2004
Fish Fire1,149Apr 7, 2004Human
Superior RX Burn 2 Fire1,128Sep 29, 2004
St Hilaire Fire1,120Apr 28, 2004Human
Ditch 20 Fire1,000Apr 24, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 Minnesota fire history

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.