Wildfires of 2013

Unnamed Prescribed Fire

2013AlabamaPrescribed fire

The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 5,521 acres in Alabama, in 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to February 3, 2013.

Size
5,521 acres
Ignition
February 3, 2013

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,521 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 31.041, -86.784.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
5,521 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
February 3, 2013
State
Alabama
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
AL3105608678420130203
MTBS assessment
Initial
Note on the perimeter
This prescribed fire event is difficult to distinguish from several adjacent prescribed fire events that have ignition dates from January 22 to February 3. This mapping contains a total of 4 prescribed fires including itself. The 3 other event id's are:

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.