Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 2,389 acres in Mississippi, in 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to March 29, 2013.
- Size
- 2,389 acres
- Ignition
- March 29, 2013
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,389 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 32.407, -89.599.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,389 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 29, 2013
- State
- Mississippi
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3240708959720130329
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- Half of the mapped area was classified as unburned/low. The analyst feels that much of this is due to either these areas being riparian with high moisture content or the event may have been predominantly an understory burn.
Other large fires in Mississippi in 20136
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 7,655 | Feb 2, 2013 | |
| Shepards Trail Fire | 3,964 | Mar 25, 2013 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,853 | Feb 18, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,208 | May 9, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,583 | Mar 6, 2013 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,523 | May 9, 2013 |
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. 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.