Luhi Fire
The Luhi Fire burned 4,930 acres in Hawaii, in 2003. It was discovered on May 12, 2003, and contained on September 1, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 4,930 acres
- Discovered
- May 12, 2003
- Contained
- September 1, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 3,480 acres. Point of origin as reported, 19.287, -155.129.
The record
- Reported final size
- 4,930 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 3,480 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 4,943 acres
- Discovered
- May 12, 2003, 10:00 a.m. local time
- Contained
- September 1, 2003, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Hawaii
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Hawaii Volcanoes National Park
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- HIHVP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2003-HIHVP-000305
- MTBS fire identifier
- HI1935115514120030512
- MTBS assessment
- Extended (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-222431
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 Hawaii in 20038
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Jun 4, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,100 | Jul 9, 2003 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,100 | Jul 22, 2003 | |
| Panau Iki Fire | 2,019 | Jan 2, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,824 | Feb 23, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Sep 15, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Aug 15, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Sep 23, 2003 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. 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.