Wildfires of 2008

Unnamed Fire

2008OklahomaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,000 acres in Oklahoma, in 2008. It was discovered on March 14, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to March 24, 2008. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
4,000 acres
Discovered
March 14, 2008
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,647 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.761, -99.791.

The record

Reported final size
4,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,647 acres
Discovered
March 14, 2008
Ignition (MTBS)
March 24, 2008
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Oklahoma
Reporting unit
Texas A & M Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
OK3481009974520080324
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2008OKOFS--2008--TX04-A_1

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 Oklahoma in 200812

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire10,394Mar 1, 2008
Unnamed Fire6,455Apr 25, 2008
Wild Horses Fire6,325Nov 6, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire6,274Apr 25, 2008
Atoka Lake Fire5,700Oct 31, 2008Human
Goff Creek Fire5,400Jun 10, 2008Human
Byron Fire5,015Feb 25, 2008
Unnamed Fire5,000Apr 20, 2008Human
Arbuckle Mountains Fire4,500Mar 12, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire3,879Mar 24, 2008
Unnamed Fire3,601Mar 1, 2008
4 Mile Road Fire3,412Feb 1, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 Oklahoma fire history

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.