Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,340 acres in Searcy County, Arkansas, in 2006. It was discovered on March 29, 2006. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,340 acres
- Discovered
- March 29, 2006
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,839 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.932, -92.938.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,340 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,839 acres
- Discovered
- March 29, 2006
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Arkansas
- County
- Searcy County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Arkansas Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- AR3595109293420060329
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-AR01170606-1073
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 Arkansas in 200610
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| No Mans Land Fire | 8,294 | Mar 13, 2006 | Natural |
| Flatside Fire | 5,091 | Apr 7, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,576 | Aug 14, 2006 | |
| Sulphur Mountain Fire | 3,739 | Jun 26, 2006 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,669 | Jan 8, 2006 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,426 | Aug 14, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,626 | Jan 8, 2006 | Human |
| Shallow Lake Road West 2 H Fire | 1,147 | Mar 1, 2006 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,056 | Mar 24, 2006 | |
| Sulphur Creek 2 Fire | 850 | Apr 14, 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.