Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Maryland, in 2004. It was discovered on January 21, 2004. MTBS dates its ignition to January 16, 2004.
- Size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- January 21, 2004
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 884 acres. Point of origin as reported, 38.358, -75.942.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 884 acres
- Discovered
- January 21, 2004, 9:00 a.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- January 16, 2004
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Maryland
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
- Agency
- Fish and Wildlife Service
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MD3835207590720040116
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Fire occurrence record
- FWS-2004MDBWRBA50
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 Maryland in 20043
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Retaining Ecological Health Fire | 4,266 | Feb 13, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,157 | Jan 16, 2004 | |
| Robbins Fire | 1,040 | Jan 13, 2004 | Human |
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.