Lone Palm Fire
The Lone Palm Fire burned 4,200 acres in Dade County, Florida, in 2002. It was discovered on August 3, 2002. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 2002
- Cause
- Natural
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 25.850, -80.567.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,200 acres
- Discovered
- August 3, 2002, 12:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- County
- Dade County
- Land ownership at origin
- State
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- ICS209_2002_199
Other large fires in Florida in 200212
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 6,800 | May 3, 2002 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,835 | May 16, 2002 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,398 | Nov 1, 2002 | |
| Rec Area Command Fire | 4,000 | May 11, 2002 | Human |
| North Mars Fire | 2,734 | Mar 28, 2002 | |
| 2 2 B Fire | 1,717 | Mar 25, 2002 | |
| P 15 Bc Fire | 1,711 | Feb 12, 2002 | |
| Sj 3 Fire | 1,660 | Jan 5, 2002 | |
| 2 3 A Fire | 1,638 | Apr 25, 2002 | |
| RX Sj 5 Fire | 1,587 | Nov 16, 2002 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,485 | May 3, 2002 | Human |
| W 8 E Fire | 1,402 | Feb 4, 2002 |
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.