Unnamed Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unit 4-05-01 Fire | 12,154 | Jun 1, 2005 | Natural |
| Unit 4 05 01 Fire | 11,746 | Jun 1, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,578 | Sep 21, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,932 | Sep 21, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,384 | May 16, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,156 | Aug 1, 2005 | |
| Grey ESTATE-2 Fire | 3,039 | Aug 29, 2005 | Human |
| Unit 1-05-3 Fire | 2,824 | Aug 16, 2005 | Natural |
| Unit C-05P Fire | 2,504 | Sep 11, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,915 | Aug 20, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,806 | Nov 24, 2005 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,723 | Sep 5, 2005 |
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.