Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 5,700 acres in Roseau County, Minnesota, in 2006. It was discovered on October 6, 2006. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 5,700 acres
- Discovered
- October 6, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,963 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.796, -96.402.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,700 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,963 acres
- Discovered
- October 6, 2006
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Roseau County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4882209638720061006
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0349-7714
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 Minnesota in 200612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cavity Lake Fire | 31,830 | Jul 14, 2006 | Natural |
| Famine Lake Fire | 4,104 | Sep 8, 2006 | Natural |
| Red Lake 16 Fire | 3,650 | Apr 6, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,909 | Nov 2, 2006 | Human |
| Turtle Lake Fire | 2,085 | Jul 13, 2006 | Natural |
| Redeye Fire | 1,792 | Sep 9, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,774 | Apr 7, 2006 | |
| Unit 4 Fire | 1,724 | Apr 22, 2006 | |
| Grain Bin Fire | 1,496 | Apr 26, 2006 | Human |
| Pool 8 RX Fire | 1,228 | Aug 22, 2006 | |
| Unit 12 E Fire | 1,070 | Apr 5, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 925 | Oct 7, 2006 | Human |
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.