Wildfires of 1992

Juniper Springs Fire

1992FloridaWildfire

The Juniper Springs Fire burned 2,015 acres in Florida, in 1992. It was discovered on July 8, 1992, and contained on July 18, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,015 acres
Discovered
July 8, 1992
Contained
July 18, 1992
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,447 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.212, -81.687.

The record

Reported final size
2,015 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,447 acres
Discovered
July 8, 1992, 2:00 p.m. local time
Contained
July 18, 1992, 6:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
National Forests in Florida
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2920308169519920708
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-275307

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 Florida in 199212

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire11,479Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire7,528Feb 14, 1992
Post Office Bay Fire7,400May 25, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire6,221Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire5,934Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire5,076Feb 14, 1992
Unnamed Fire5,050Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire4,998Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire4,518Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire4,285Mar 1, 1992
Unnamed Fire4,219Feb 14, 1992
Unnamed Fire3,942Mar 17, 1992

Every fire of 1992 Florida 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.