Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,178 acres in Beauregard Parish, Louisiana, in 2006. It was discovered on March 8, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,178 acres
- Discovered
- March 8, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,007 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.641, -93.087.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,178 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,007 acres
- Discovered
- March 8, 2006
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- 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
- LA3065609309620060308
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-LA01420606-1122
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 8,557 | Apr 9, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,080 | May 19, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,049 | May 19, 2006 | |
| Mollicy Warren Fire | 1,806 | Jan 2, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,417 | Apr 17, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,372 | Aug 16, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,263 | Apr 17, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | Jun 27, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,104 | Jun 6, 2006 | |
| Unit I Fire | 1,100 | Jan 29, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,052 | May 19, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,034 | Mar 24, 2006 |
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.