Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 7,145 acres in St. Johns County, Florida, in 1998. It was discovered on July 1, 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to July 8, 1998. The cause was recorded as human.
- Size
- 7,145 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 1998
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,340 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.771, -81.318.
The record
- Reported final size
- 7,145 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,340 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 1998
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 8, 1998
- Cause
- Human, Undetermined
- State
- Florida
- County
- St. Johns County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2974808133719980708
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_68870
- Note on the perimeter
- Best scene available
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 39,000 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 26,900 | Jun 20, 1998 | Natural |
| Holiday Fire | 24,602 | May 25, 1998 | Human |
| Oak Fire | 20,100 | Jun 2, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,753 | Jun 15, 1998 | Human |
| 27 Fire | 10,700 | Aug 1, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,560 | Jun 19, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,240 | Jun 24, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,621 | Feb 19, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,052 | Mar 23, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | Jun 30, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | May 16, 1998 | Human |
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.