Unnamed Prescribed Fire
The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 5,001 acres in Mississippi, in 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to April 6, 2013.
- Size
- 5,001 acres
- Ignition
- April 6, 2013
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 5,001 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 31.529, -88.926.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 5,001 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 6, 2013
- State
- Mississippi
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- MS3152608891320130406
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Note on the perimeter
- This mapping also includes MS3153408892820130413 which is an adjacent event with a proximate ignition date. The analyst was unable to seperate the two events.
Other large fires in Mississippi in 20137
| 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 | 2,389 | Mar 29, 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.