Wildfires of 2001

Onionkeyby Fire

2001FloridaWildland fire use

The Onionkeyby Fire burned 2,472 acres in Florida, in 2001. It was discovered on June 25, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
2,472 acres
Discovered
June 25, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,907 acres. Point of origin as reported, 25.593, -81.155.

The record

Reported final size
2,472 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,907 acres
Discovered
June 25, 2001, 2:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
Land ownership at origin
National Park Service
Reporting unit
Everglades National Park
Agency
National Park Service
Incident type
Wildland fire use
MTBS fire identifier
FL2559508116020010625
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-232046
Note on the perimeter
herbaceous 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 200112

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire57,200May 12, 2001Natural
Uncle Joe's Command Fire38,100Feb 5, 2001Human
Markham Park Fire25,000Jun 17, 2001Natural
Bearisland Fire24,315May 16, 2001Human
Mallory Swamp Fire20,000May 15, 2001Natural
Park Fire17,000Apr 15, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire14,700Jun 5, 2001Natural
Unnamed Fire12,000Jun 12, 2001Natural
Littlecezr Fire11,760Apr 23, 2001Human
Unnamed Fire10,500Feb 25, 2001Human
Stagecoach Complex10,119Feb 15, 2001Human
Section 3 Fire9,009Jun 25, 2001Natural

Every fire of 2001 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.