07 Tallgrass Prescribed Fire
The 07 Tallgrass Prescribed Fire burned 3,346 acres in Kansas, in 2007. MTBS dates its ignition to March 10, 2007.
- Size
- 3,346 acres
- Ignition
- March 10, 2007
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,346 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.436, -96.575.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,346 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 10, 2007
- State
- Kansas
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- KS3843209657620070310
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- Logical imagery used regarding extreme rdnbr offset fire ok.
Other large fires in Kansas in 20075
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aetna Fire | 5,000 | Nov 19, 2007 | Human |
| Wano Fire | 2,000 | Oct 18, 2007 | Human |
| Christianson Hill Fire | 2,000 | Apr 28, 2007 | Human |
| Frontier Fire | 1,000 | Oct 30, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Apr 10, 2007 |
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. 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.