Wildfires of 1999

Unnamed Fire

1999FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 5,000 acres in Florida, in 1999. It was discovered on March 14, 1999. MTBS dates its ignition to April 6, 1999.

Size
5,000 acres
Discovered
March 14, 1999
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,881 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.156, -81.543.

The record

Reported final size
5,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
4,881 acres
Discovered
March 14, 1999, 12:00 a.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
April 6, 1999
Cause
Undetermined
State
Florida
Land ownership at origin
Fish and Wildlife Service
Reporting unit
Florida Panther National Wildlife Refuge
Agency
Fish and Wildlife Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2618308156319990406
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FWS-1999FLFPR4349
Note on the perimeter
Woody Wetlands

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
FAKPF#1 Fire5,000Dec 27, 1999

Every fire of 1999 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.