Impassable One Fire
The Impassable One Fire burned 34,660 acres in Florida, in 2004. It was discovered on March 7, 2004, and contained on May 10, 2004. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.
- Size
- 34,660 acres
- Discovered
- March 7, 2004
- Contained
- May 10, 2004
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 29,827 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.358, -82.483.
The record
- Reported final size
- 34,660 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 29,827 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 27,571 acres
- Discovered
- March 7, 2004, 7:01 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 10, 2004, 7:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Debris and open burning
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Florida
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- FLFNF
- Part of
- Impassable One Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL3042908239320040307
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-395744
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
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 Florida in 200412
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Fork Fire | 26,279 | Apr 5, 2004 | Human |
| The Miccosukee Fire | 20,200 | Jul 7, 2004 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 18,572 | Feb 22, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,401 | Feb 23, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,515 | Feb 23, 2004 | |
| Rottonberg Fire | 8,000 | Apr 25, 2004 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,664 | Jan 14, 2004 | |
| East Fire | 7,600 | Jun 25, 2004 | Natural |
| Deeplakerx Fire | 6,938 | Jan 22, 2004 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,530 | Mar 2, 2004 | |
| Gator Fire | 6,000 | May 29, 2004 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,799 | Feb 23, 2004 |
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.