Wildfires of 2004

Road 1 Fire

2004Baker County, FloridaWildfire

The Road 1 Fire burned 2,820 acres in Baker County, Florida, in 2004. It was discovered on May 26, 2004, and contained on May 26, 2004. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
2,820 acres
Discovered
May 26, 2004
Contained
May 26, 2004
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,803 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.467, -82.292.

The record

Reported final size
2,820 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,803 acres
Discovered
May 26, 2004, 3:10 p.m. local time
Contained
May 26, 2004, 5:00 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Florida
County
Baker County
Land ownership at origin
State or Private
Reporting unit
National Forests in Florida
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL3051008226620040526
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
FS-398792
Note on the perimeter
Wetlands.

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

FireAcresStartCause
Impassable One Fire34,660Mar 7, 2004Human
East Fork Fire26,279Apr 5, 2004Human
The Miccosukee Fire20,200Jul 7, 2004Natural
Unnamed Fire18,572Feb 22, 2004
Unnamed Fire9,401Feb 23, 2004
Unnamed Fire8,515Feb 23, 2004
Rottonberg Fire8,000Apr 25, 2004Human
Unnamed Fire7,664Jan 14, 2004
East Fire7,600Jun 25, 2004Natural
Deeplakerx Fire6,938Jan 22, 2004
Unnamed Fire6,530Mar 2, 2004
Gator Fire6,000May 29, 2004Human

Every fire of 2004 Florida fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.