Wildfires of 2002

Clementsville Command Fire

2002Okeechobee County, FloridaWildfire

The Clementsville Command Fire burned 1,011 acres in Okeechobee County, Florida, in 2002. It was discovered on May 13, 2002. The cause was recorded as recreation and ceremony.

Size
1,011 acres
Discovered
May 13, 2002
Cause
Human

Map

No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 27.067, -80.621.

The record

Reported final size
1,011 acres
Discovered
May 13, 2002
Cause
Human, Recreation and ceremony
State
Florida
County
Okeechobee County
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
Fire occurrence record
TFS_FL_89719

Other large fires in Florida in 200212

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire6,800May 3, 2002Human
Unnamed Fire4,835May 16, 2002Natural
Unnamed Fire4,398Nov 1, 2002
Lone Palm Fire4,200Aug 3, 2002Natural
Rec Area Command Fire4,000May 11, 2002Human
North Mars Fire2,734Mar 28, 2002
2 2 B Fire1,717Mar 25, 2002
P 15 Bc Fire1,711Feb 12, 2002
Sj 3 Fire1,660Jan 5, 2002
2 3 A Fire1,638Apr 25, 2002
RX Sj 5 Fire1,587Nov 16, 2002
Unnamed Fire1,485May 3, 2002Human

Every fire of 2002 Florida fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.