Wildfires of 2006

Unnamed Fire

2006Beauregard Parish, LouisianaWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire8,557Apr 9, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,080May 19, 2006
Unnamed Fire2,049May 19, 2006
Mollicy Warren Fire1,806Jan 2, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,417Apr 17, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,372Aug 16, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,263Apr 17, 2006
Unnamed Fire1,200Jun 27, 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.