Akone-Pule Hwy Fire
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lalamilo Fire | 25,000 | Aug 1, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,820 | Jun 14, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,800 | Aug 14, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,800 | Jul 22, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,508 | May 10, 2005 |
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.