Wildfires of 1992

Unnamed Fire

1992Madison County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,200 acres in Madison County, Florida, in 1992. It was discovered on May 24, 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to July 5, 1992. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,200 acres
Discovered
May 24, 1992
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,916 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.310, -83.480.

The record

Reported final size
2,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,916 acres
Discovered
May 24, 1992
Ignition (MTBS)
July 5, 1992
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
County
Madison County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL3030908345219920705
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_25422
Note on the perimeter
Wetland use NBR. Cypress

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.