Name: Wildfire in Florida, April 24, 2025
Start: 2025-04-24T15:00
End: 2025-04-24T15:00
Location: Florida

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 1
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS TBW wrote it up.

A firefighter was injured while fighting a wildfire in Key Vista Nature Park near Holiday in Pasco County.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tampa Bay, FL wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 24, 1:14 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Apr 24, 1:14 PM EST, 1 hour 46 minutes before

Area Forecast Discussion
National Weather Service Tampa Bay Ruskin FL
214 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

.DISCUSSION...
Issued at 214 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

Dry high pressure will continue across the area through the
weekend. Temperatures will warm into the 90s each afternoon,
with the sea breeze developing near the coast late each afternoon
as predominant E/SE flow prevails.

On Monday-Monday night, an upper disturbance will move over the
area and allow for some isolated showers. Dry high pressure then
returns across the area through the rest of the period. Highs
will remain in the upper 80s to lower 90s and lows in the mid 60s
to low 70s.

&&

.AVIATION...
(18Z TAFS)
Issued at 214 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

Easterly flow is becoming gusty in some areas this afternoon, with
winds expected to turn onshore near the coast over the next few
hours. VFR conditions will prevail through the period, as winds
turn back to the east and diminish overnight, then increase again
after 14Z.

&&

.MARINE...
Issued at 214 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

High pressure will ridge across the waters through much of the
period, with E/SE winds prevailing and a later afternoon sea
breeze turning winds onshore each day. The only chance for rain
may come Monday/Monday night as an upper disturbance moves over
the area.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...
Issued at 214 PM EDT Thu Apr 24 2025

Dry conditions will continue and some locations will see critical
humidities for a couple of hours in the afternoons. The winds and
dispersions should not couple with that though to warrant a red
flag warning at this time, but will be monitoring conditions
closely.

&&

.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
TPA  69  90  69  90 /   0   0   0   0
FMY  68  90  66  90 /   0   0   0   0
GIF  65  91  64  92 /   0   0   0   0
SRQ  67  89  67  90 /   0   0   0   0
BKV  60  92  63  92 /   0   0   0   0
SPG  71  88  69  88 /   0   0   0   0

&&

.TBW WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
FL...None.
Gulf waters...None.

&&

DISCUSSION/AVIATION/MARINE/FIRE WEATHER...Hubbard
DECISION SUPPORT/UPPER AIR/CLIMATE...Shiveley

The radar

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Coastal Pasco

When: April 24, 3:00 PM EST
Where: Coastal Pasco forecast zone
Injuries: 1 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by: Emergency Manager
Coordinates: 28.307, -82.439 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

FDEM reported an injury sustained by a firefighter responding to a wildfire near Key Vista Nature Park. Details and severity of the injury remain unknown, as well as the cause of the fire. There were no critical fire weather conditions observed, however, afternoon humidity values generally bottomed out in the 35 to 45 percent range at nearby observation sites, with winds generally 10 mph or less with occasional gusts to 15 to 20 mph. Prior to containment the fire reached a maximum span of 40 acres.

What these are

Wildfire: A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1258158.