Wildfires of 1999

SCRUB-J3.2 Fire

1999FloridaWildfire

The SCRUB-J3.2 Fire burned 1,084 acres in Florida, in 1999. It was discovered on March 25, 1999. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,084 acres
Discovered
March 25, 1999
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,603 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.667, -80.700.

The record

Reported final size
1,084 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,603 acres
Discovered
March 25, 1999, 2:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Florida
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2867208070419990325
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1999FLMIR4364
Note on the perimeter
Woody Wetland

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

FireAcresStartCause
State Fire158,000Apr 19, 1999Human
Friendly Fire69,060May 21, 1999Natural
Burnout Fire27,000May 25, 1999Natural
Unnamed Fire12,924Jan 16, 1999
Unnamed Fire12,507Feb 17, 1999
Max Fish Camp Fire10,000May 18, 1999Natural
Unnamed Fire8,797Feb 17, 1999
Unnamed Fire7,417Aug 1, 1999
Unnamed Fire7,407Mar 5, 1999
Unnamed Fire6,948Feb 1, 1999
Cow House Fire6,675Apr 15, 1999Human
Unnamed Fire5,000Mar 14, 1999

Every fire of 1999 Florida fire history

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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.