Wildfires of 2004

Unnamed Fire

2004Palm Beach County, FloridaOther fire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,000 acres in Palm Beach County, Florida, in 2004. It was discovered on June 12, 2004, and contained on June 14, 2004. MTBS dates its ignition to March 11, 2004. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
1,000 acres
Discovered
June 12, 2004
Contained
June 14, 2004
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,216 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.486, -80.859.

The record

Reported final size
1,000 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,216 acres
Discovered
June 12, 2004, 1:15 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
March 11, 2004
Contained
June 14, 2004, 6:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Natural
State
Florida
County
Palm Beach County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Other fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2643908086720040311
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2004FLFLS2004180201
Note on the perimeter
Herbaceous 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.