Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 10,000 acres in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 1994. It was discovered on July 6, 1994. MTBS dates its ignition to August 7, 1994. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 10,000 acres
- Discovered
- July 6, 1994
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,003 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.428, -80.454.
The record
- Reported final size
- 10,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,003 acres
- Discovered
- July 6, 1994
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 7, 1994
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- County
- Palm Beach County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2641708044119940807
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_27688
- Note on the perimeter
- Emergent Herbaceous Wetlands. Fire perimeter may include an UNNAMED fire (FL-166-19940000).
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 199412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Holyland Fire | 17,000 | Jun 11, 1994 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,720 | May 13, 1994 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,241 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,803 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,443 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,296 | Aug 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,655 | Nov 7, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,545 | Nov 7, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,524 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,225 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,094 | Feb 3, 1994 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,800 | May 26, 1994 |
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.