Wildfires of 1996

Unnamed Fire

1996FloridaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 2,160 acres in Florida, in 1996. MTBS dates its ignition to January 24, 1996.

Size
2,160 acres
Ignition
January 24, 1996

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,160 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 27.151, -81.535.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,160 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
January 24, 1996
State
Florida
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2714308154519960124
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Note on the perimeter
herbaceous wetlands grasslands shrub and pasture Hay multiple polygons

Other large fires in Florida in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire15,000Mar 24, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire9,416Jan 24, 1996
Unnamed Fire5,500Jun 18, 1996Natural
Unnamed Fire3,790May 20, 1996
East Marsh Fire3,542Jan 25, 1996
Unnamed Fire3,416Apr 2, 1996
Unnamed Fire3,343Feb 27, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire3,173Jan 24, 1996
Major 1 Fire3,149May 14, 1996Human
Card Sound Fire3,040Mar 4, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire2,835Dec 9, 1996
Unnamed Fire2,708Oct 27, 1996

Every fire of 1996 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. 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.