Wildfires of 2012

Unnamed Fire

2012NebraskaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,200 acres in Nebraska, in 2012. It was discovered on June 30, 2012, and contained on June 30, 2012. MTBS dates its ignition to July 15, 2012. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
June 30, 2012
Contained
June 30, 2012
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,202 acres. Point of origin as reported, 41.656, -100.147.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,202 acres
Discovered
June 30, 2012, 4:00 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
July 15, 2012
Contained
June 30, 2012, 9:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Nebraska
Reporting unit
Nebraska Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
NE4167110014120120715
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2012NENFS15388

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 Nebraska in 201212

FireAcresStartCause
Region 24 Complex66,745Jul 20, 2012Natural
Keith County Complex60,000Aug 2, 2012Natural
West Ash Fire56,471Aug 28, 2012Natural
Douthit Fire29,730Aug 28, 2012Natural
Wellnitz Fire28,800Aug 31, 2012Natural
Turner Tatanka Fire19,000Aug 2, 2012Natural
Unnamed Fire18,020Sep 8, 2012
Unnamed Fire7,980Jul 15, 2012
Unnamed Fire6,380Jul 23, 2012Natural
Unnamed Fire6,011Jul 15, 2012
Unnamed Fire5,303Sep 8, 2012
Unnamed Fire4,793Sep 8, 2012

Every fire of 2012 Nebraska 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.