Wildfires of 2004

Unnamed Fire

2004Miller County, ArkansasWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,299 acres in Miller County, Arkansas, in 2004. It was discovered on March 21, 2004, and contained on March 21, 2004. MTBS dates its ignition to March 22, 2004. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.

Size
1,299 acres
Discovered
March 21, 2004
Contained
March 21, 2004
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,357 acres. Point of origin as reported, 33.258, -93.949.

The record

Reported final size
1,299 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,357 acres
Discovered
March 21, 2004, 10:05 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
March 22, 2004
Contained
March 21, 2004
Cause
Human, Arson/incendiarism
State
Arkansas
County
Miller County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Arkansas Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
AR3324809393820040322
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2004ARFCAR040651

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 Arkansas in 20043

FireAcresStartCause
Lower Wild Fire10,027Mar 10, 2004
Unnamed Fire1,022Feb 28, 2004
Polk Creek Fire933Mar 12, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 Arkansas 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.