Wildfires of 2005

Akone-Pule Hwy Fire

2005Hawaii County, HawaiiWildfire

The Akone-Pule Hwy Fire burned 2,500 acres in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in 2005. It was discovered on August 2, 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to August 4, 2005.

Size
2,500 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2005
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,149 acres. Point of origin as reported, 20.142, -155.887.

The record

Reported final size
2,500 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,149 acres
Discovered
August 2, 2005
Ignition (MTBS)
August 4, 2005
Cause
Undetermined
State
Hawaii
County
Hawaii County
Reporting unit
County of Hawai'i
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
HI2012615587620050804
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
HIWMO-HI1231
Note on the perimeter
perimeter is 8km NNW of point location

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 20055

FireAcresStartCause
Lalamilo Fire25,000Aug 1, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,820Jun 14, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,800Aug 14, 2005
Unnamed Fire2,800Jul 22, 2005
Unnamed Fire1,508May 10, 2005

Every fire of 2005 Hawaii fire history

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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.