Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 800 acres in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 1997. It was discovered on November 10, 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to March 8, 1997. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 800 acres
- Discovered
- November 10, 1997
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,712 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.370, -80.810.
The record
- Reported final size
- 800 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,712 acres
- Discovered
- November 10, 1997
- Ignition (MTBS)
- March 8, 1997
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Florida
- County
- Palm Beach County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Other fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2631208086719970308
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_48792
- Note on the perimeter
- Herbaceous wetlands and woody wetlands
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 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oh No Fire | 41,000 | Feb 22, 1997 | Human |
| Rescue Fire | 11,000 | Apr 6, 1997 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,063 | Mar 8, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,000 | Jul 7, 1997 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,804 | Jan 26, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,537 | May 7, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,448 | Feb 16, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,376 | Jan 26, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 3,300 | May 5, 1997 | Human |
| Lw M 1 Fire | 3,275 | Jan 21, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,620 | May 7, 1997 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,145 | Mar 8, 1997 |
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.