Wildfires of 2008

Unnamed Fire

2008Wichita County, TexasWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 3,000 acres in Wichita County, Texas, in 2008. It was discovered on January 5, 2008. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
3,000 acres
Discovered
January 5, 2008
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 34.022, -98.869.

The record

Reported final size
3,000 acres
Discovered
January 5, 2008
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Texas
County
Wichita County
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
SFO-TX0482-142586

Other large fires in Texas in 200812

FireAcresStartCause
Glass Fire220,000Feb 25, 2008Human
Huckabee Fire98,168Apr 30, 2008Human
Highway 322 Fire67,500Mar 14, 2008Human
Porter Fire51,400Mar 14, 2008
Hughes Ranch Fire43,241Jun 4, 2008Human
Eighty-Two Fire33,037Mar 14, 2008
Snyder Complex28,625Feb 23, 2008Human
Burns Ranch Fire25,600Mar 18, 2008Human
Cathedral Fire23,000Apr 24, 2008Natural
Silver Fire20,200Feb 25, 2008Human
Cotulla Fire19,000Feb 2, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire18,000Feb 25, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 Texas fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.