Rec Area Command Fire
The Rec Area Command Fire burned 4,000 acres in Broward County, Florida, in 2002. It was discovered on May 11, 2002. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- May 11, 2002
- Cause
- Human
Map
No perimeter survives for this fire; the map shows its reported point of origin. Point of origin as reported, 26.119, -80.709.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,000 acres
- Discovered
- May 11, 2002
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Florida
- County
- Broward County
- Reporting unit
- Florida Forest Service
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Fire occurrence record
- TFS_FL_86542
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 | |
| Lone Palm Fire | 4,200 | Aug 3, 2002 | Natural |
| 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.