Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 5,000 acres in Ellis County, Oklahoma, in 2008. It was discovered on April 20, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to May 11, 2008. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 5,000 acres
- Discovered
- April 20, 2008
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 16,278 acres. Point of origin as reported, 35.942, -99.631.
The record
- Reported final size
- 5,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 16,278 acres
- Discovered
- April 20, 2008
- Ignition (MTBS)
- May 11, 2008
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Oklahoma
- County
- Ellis County
- Reporting unit
- Texas A & M Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- OK3596909966120080511
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-2008OKOFS--2008--TX04-A_2
- Note on the perimeter
- Used 4/25/2008 and 5/11/2008 to delineate perimeter.
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 10,394 | Mar 1, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,455 | Apr 25, 2008 | |
| Wild Horses Fire | 6,325 | Nov 6, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,274 | Apr 25, 2008 | |
| Atoka Lake Fire | 5,700 | Oct 31, 2008 | Human |
| Goff Creek Fire | 5,400 | Jun 10, 2008 | Human |
| Byron Fire | 5,015 | Feb 25, 2008 | |
| Arbuckle Mountains Fire | 4,500 | Mar 12, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Mar 14, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,879 | Mar 24, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,601 | Mar 1, 2008 | |
| 4 Mile Road Fire | 3,412 | Feb 1, 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.