Wildfires of 1998

Unnamed Fire

1998Flagler County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 26,900 acres in Flagler County, Florida, in 1998. It was discovered on June 20, 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to July 8, 1998. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
26,900 acres
Discovered
June 20, 1998
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 24,938 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.620, -81.350.

The record

Reported final size
26,900 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
24,938 acres
Discovered
June 20, 1998
Ignition (MTBS)
July 8, 1998
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
County
Flagler County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2959708129919980708
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_29893

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 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire39,000Jun 20, 1998Natural
Holiday Fire24,602May 25, 1998Human
Oak Fire20,100Jun 2, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire12,753Jun 15, 1998Human
27 Fire10,700Aug 1, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire10,560Jun 19, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire10,240Jun 24, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire7,621Feb 19, 1998
Unnamed Fire7,145Jul 1, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire7,052Mar 23, 1998
Unnamed Fire7,000Jun 30, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire7,000May 16, 1998Human

Every fire of 1998 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.