Wildfires of 1993

Unnamed Fire

1993Gulf County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,848 acres in Gulf County, Florida, in 1993. It was discovered on August 6, 1993. MTBS dates its ignition to October 3, 1993. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
1,848 acres
Discovered
August 6, 1993
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 705 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.980, -85.330.

The record

Reported final size
1,848 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
705 acres
Discovered
August 6, 1993
Ignition (MTBS)
October 3, 1993
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Florida
County
Gulf County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2996808532019931003
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_67186

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 199312

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire9,414Aug 11, 1993
Unnamed Fire8,500May 19, 1993Human
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

Every fire of 1993 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.