Wildfires of 2006

Mollicy Warren Fire

2006LouisianaWildfire

The Mollicy Warren Fire burned 1,806 acres in Louisiana, in 2006. It was discovered on January 2, 2006, and contained on January 4, 2006.

Size
1,806 acres
Discovered
January 2, 2006
Contained
January 4, 2006
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,178 acres. Point of origin as reported, 32.925, -92.038.

The record

Reported final size
1,806 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,178 acres
Discovered
January 2, 2006, 1:30 p.m. local time
Contained
January 4, 2006, 3:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Undetermined
State
Louisiana
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Upper Ouachita National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
LA3292609199620060102
MTBS assessment
Extended
Fire occurrence record
FWS-2006LAUORB93P

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 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire8,557Apr 9, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,080May 19, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,049May 19, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,417Apr 17, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,372Aug 16, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,263Apr 17, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,200Jun 27, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire1,178Mar 8, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire1,104Jun 6, 2006
Unit I Fire1,100Jan 29, 2006Human
Unnamed Fire1,052May 19, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,034Mar 24, 2006

Every fire of 2006 Louisiana 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.