Grain Bin Fire
The Grain Bin Fire burned 1,074 acres in Marshall County, Minnesota, in 2008. It was discovered on April 20, 2008. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 1,074 acres
- Discovered
- April 20, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,079 acres. Point of origin as reported, 48.219, -95.801.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,074 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,079 acres
- Discovered
- April 20, 2008
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Minnesota
- County
- Marshall County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MN4821609578420080420
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-MN0446-930644
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 20088
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,930 | May 27, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,854 | Apr 18, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,421 | May 3, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,169 | Aug 15, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,096 | May 3, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,022 | Aug 15, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,200 | May 16, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,150 | May 5, 2008 | 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.