Wildfires of 1993

Unnamed Fire

1993Miami-Dade County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 8,500 acres in Miami-Dade County, Florida, in 1993. It was discovered on May 19, 1993. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.

Size
8,500 acres
Discovered
May 19, 1993
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 25.440, -80.450.

The record

Reported final size
8,500 acres
Discovered
May 19, 1993
Cause
Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
State
Florida
County
Miami-Dade County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_42236

Other large fires in Florida in 199312

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire9,414Aug 11, 1993
Unnamed Fire8,493Jan 31, 1993
Unnamed Fire6,231Dec 17, 1993
Unnamed Fire5,797Jan 31, 1993
Unnamed Fire4,001Apr 20, 1993Human
Unnamed Fire3,656Jul 31, 1993
Unnamed Fire3,350Sep 28, 1993
Unnamed Fire3,059Jan 31, 1993
Unnamed Fire2,969Jan 31, 1993
Unnamed Fire2,145Dec 17, 1993
Unnamed Fire2,044Dec 17, 1993
Unnamed Fire2,037Apr 5, 1993

Every fire of 1993 Florida fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.