Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 519 acres in McIntosh County, Georgia, in 2004. It was discovered on April 4, 2004. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 519 acres
- Discovered
- April 4, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,106 acres. Point of origin as reported, 31.471, -81.446.
The record
- Reported final size
- 519 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,106 acres
- Discovered
- April 4, 2004
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Georgia
- County
- McIntosh County
- Land ownership at origin
- Other Federal
- Reporting unit
- Georgia Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- GA3145908143020040404
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-GA00770404-40-191-0075-04
- Note on the perimeter
- Woody wetlands
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 Georgia in 200412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 5,400 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,432 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,752 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,503 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,489 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,028 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| C 15 1 2 3 4 Fire | 1,648 | Feb 19, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,325 | Feb 28, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,302 | Mar 31, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,238 | May 10, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,165 | Mar 31, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,009 | Apr 16, 2004 |
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.