Wildfires of 2001

Unnamed Fire

2001Lafayette County, FloridaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 57,200 acres in Lafayette County, Florida, in 2001. It was discovered on May 12, 2001. MTBS dates its ignition to May 28, 2001. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
57,200 acres
Discovered
May 12, 2001
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 59,190 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.861, -83.094.

The record

Reported final size
57,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
59,190 acres
Discovered
May 12, 2001
Ignition (MTBS)
May 28, 2001
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
County
Lafayette County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Part of
Dixie/Lafayette Complex
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2991908306120010528
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_99488
Note on the perimeter
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
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
Joe Jr Fire8,500Mar 9, 2001Human

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.