Wildfires of 2000

Unnamed Fire

2000Lafayette County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 4,100 acres in Lafayette County, Florida, in 2000. It was discovered on February 24, 2000. MTBS dates its ignition to March 14, 2000. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.

Size
4,100 acres
Discovered
February 24, 2000
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,911 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.020, -83.190.

The record

Reported final size
4,100 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
3,911 acres
Discovered
February 24, 2000
Ignition (MTBS)
March 14, 2000
Cause
Human, Equipment and vehicle use
State
Florida
County
Lafayette County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL3002808324820000314
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_79163

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 200012

FireAcresStartCause
49DOF68TH Fire16,500Apr 8, 2000Human
Merritt Fire15,627Apr 13, 2000Human
Holeyland Fire14,000May 27, 2000Human
Alley Fire8,000Jan 12, 2000
Long Bay Fire6,679May 4, 2000Human
Benton Fire6,179Mar 4, 2000Human
Unnamed Fire5,921Jan 16, 2000
Flowers (Carlton Reserve) Fire5,837May 14, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire4,737Feb 9, 2000
41SOUTH Fire4,500Dec 7, 2000
Unnamed Fire4,200Jun 24, 2000Natural
Unnamed Fire4,000Apr 1, 2000Human

Every fire of 2000 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.