Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,300 acres in Trigg County, Kentucky, in 2006. It was discovered on April 13, 2006.
- Size
- 1,300 acres
- Discovered
- April 13, 2006
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,492 acres. Point of origin as reported, 36.691, -88.051.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,300 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,492 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,896 acres
- Discovered
- April 13, 2006
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Kentucky
- County
- Trigg County
- Reporting unit
- Kentucky Division of Forestry
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- KYLBF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KY3669308804820060413
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-KY01080606-221-00477
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 Kentucky in 20064
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,182 | Mar 2, 2006 | |
| Rocky Face Fire | 1,105 | Mar 9, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 456 | Apr 26, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 350 | Feb 28, 2006 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.