Wildfires of 1992

Unnamed Fire

1992Lake County, FloridaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,995 acres in Lake County, Florida, in 1992. It was discovered on July 29, 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to August 8, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,995 acres
Discovered
July 29, 1992
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,301 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.851, -81.416.

The record

Reported final size
1,995 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,301 acres
Discovered
July 29, 1992
Ignition (MTBS)
August 8, 1992
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
County
Lake County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2884308141719920808
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_25792
Note on the perimeter
woody wetlands evergreen forest

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

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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.