Wildfires of 2006

Unnamed Fire

2006MississippiWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,485 acres in Mississippi, in 2006. It was discovered on March 27, 2006. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,485 acres
Discovered
March 27, 2006
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,488 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.435, -89.348.

The record

Reported final size
1,485 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,488 acres
Discovered
March 27, 2006
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Mississippi
Reporting unit
Mississippi Forestry Commission
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
MS3045308935920060327
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
STATE_MS_66520
Note on the perimeter
Upland Evergreen and Upland Shrub

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 Mississippi in 200612

FireAcresStartCause
Kiln (Bayou Bacon) Fire3,708Jun 10, 2006Human
Sandy Fox Fire3,000Mar 9, 2006Human
Witchdce W Fire2,844Mar 3, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,509Mar 2, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,365Mar 26, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,179Mar 3, 2006
Sause Fire1,824Jun 3, 2006Natural
Unnamed Fire1,686Mar 3, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,594Mar 3, 2006
Trace Unit 2 Fire1,528Mar 16, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,507Mar 16, 2006Human
White Sands Fire1,069Mar 5, 2006Human

Every fire of 2006 Mississippi 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.