Friendly Fire
The Friendly Fire burned 69,060 acres in Florida, in 1999. It was discovered on May 21, 1999, and contained on June 10, 1999. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 69,060 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 1999
- Contained
- June 10, 1999
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 75,061 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.475, -82.395.
The record
- Reported final size
- 69,060 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 75,061 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 41,632 acres
- Discovered
- May 21, 1999, 3:30 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 10, 1999, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Florida
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- FLFNF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL3054608239119990521
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-342122
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 199912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| State Fire | 158,000 | Apr 19, 1999 | Human |
| Burnout Fire | 27,000 | May 25, 1999 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,924 | Jan 16, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 12,507 | Feb 17, 1999 | |
| Max Fish Camp Fire | 10,000 | May 18, 1999 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,797 | Feb 17, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,417 | Aug 1, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,407 | Mar 5, 1999 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,948 | Feb 1, 1999 | |
| Cow House Fire | 6,675 | Apr 15, 1999 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,000 | Mar 14, 1999 | |
| FAKPF#1 Fire | 5,000 | Dec 27, 1999 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.