Wildfires of 2005

Unnamed Fire

2005Beauregard Parish, LouisianaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,852 acres in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, in 2005. It was discovered on March 12, 2005, and contained on March 12, 2005. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,852 acres
Discovered
March 12, 2005
Contained
March 12, 2005
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,139 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.701, -93.002.

The record

Reported final size
2,852 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,139 acres
Discovered
March 12, 2005
Contained
March 12, 2005
Cause
Natural
State
Louisiana
County
Beauregard Parish
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Louisiana Office of Forestry
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3072009298820050312
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2005LDAFLA00690505-0384

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 Louisiana in 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Unit 4-05-01 Fire12,154Jun 1, 2005Natural
Unit 4 05 01 Fire11,746Jun 1, 2005
Unnamed Fire6,578Sep 21, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,932Sep 21, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,384May 16, 2005
Unnamed Fire3,156Aug 1, 2005
Grey ESTATE-2 Fire3,039Aug 29, 2005Human
Unit 1-05-3 Fire2,824Aug 16, 2005Natural
Unit C-05P Fire2,504Sep 11, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire1,915Aug 20, 2005
Unnamed Fire1,806Nov 24, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire1,723Sep 5, 2005

Every fire of 2005 Louisiana 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.