Unnamed Fire
The Unnamed Fire burned 1,425 acres in Lee County, Florida, in 1999. It was discovered on March 23, 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to April 6, 1999. The cause was recorded as railroad operations and maintenance.
- Size
- 1,425 acres
- Discovered
- March 23, 1999
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 947 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.700, -82.010.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,425 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 947 acres
- Discovered
- March 23, 1999
- Ignition (MTBS)
- April 6, 1999
- Cause
- Human, Railroad operations and maintenance
- State
- Florida
- County
- Lee County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2671608200819990406
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_50888
- Note on the perimeter
- Wetland and high impact urban.
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 |
| Friendly Fire | 69,060 | May 21, 1999 | Natural |
| 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 |
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.