Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 890 acres in Dade County, Georgia, in 2009. It was discovered on March 22, 2009. The cause was recorded as arson/incendiarism.
- Size
- 890 acres
- Discovered
- March 22, 2009
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,000 acres. Point of origin as reported, 34.974, -85.488.
The record
- Reported final size
- 890 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 22, 2009
- Cause
- Human, Arson/incendiarism
- State
- Georgia
- County
- Dade County
- Land ownership at origin
- Private
- Reporting unit
- Georgia Forestry Commission
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- GA3497908548420090322
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- SFO-GA0456-39-083-0063-03
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 Georgia in 20091
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 1,789 | Feb 10, 2009 |
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.