Panau Iki Fire
The Panau Iki Fire burned 2,019 acres in Hawaii, in 2003. It was discovered on January 2, 2003, and contained on May 11, 2003. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 2,019 acres
- Discovered
- January 2, 2003
- Contained
- May 11, 2003
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,925 acres. Point of origin as reported, 19.317, -155.100.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,019 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,925 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,119 acres
- Discovered
- January 2, 2003, 7:30 a.m. local time
- Contained
- May 11, 2003, 6:00 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-000001
- MTBS fire identifier
- HI1932115511120030102
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- W-222428
- 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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 18, from February 13, 2003 to March 2, 2003. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 110 on February 20, 2003
- Most aircraft assigned
- 3
- Cost reported by the teams
- $794,000, in 2003 dollars
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 25 acres, on February 14, 2003.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 13, 2003 | 2,000 | |
| Feb 14, 2003 | 2,025 | +25 |
| Feb 15, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 16, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 17, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 18, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 19, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 20, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 21, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 22, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 23, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 24, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 25, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 26, 2003 | 2,025 | 0 |
| Feb 28, 2003 | 2,035 | |
| Mar 1, 2003 | 2,035 | 0 |
| Mar 2, 2003 | 2,035 | 0 |
Other large fires in Hawaii in 20038
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Luhi Fire | 4,930 | May 12, 2003 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,000 | Jun 4, 2003 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,100 | Jul 9, 2003 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,100 | Jul 22, 2003 | |
| 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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.