Lalamilo Fire
The Lalamilo Fire burned 25,000 acres in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in 2005. It was discovered on August 1, 2005.
- Size
- 25,000 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 18,985 acres. Point of origin as reported, 20.001, -155.692.
The record
- Reported final size
- 25,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 18,985 acres
- Discovered
- August 1, 2005
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Hawaii
- County
- Hawaii County
- Reporting unit
- State of Hawaii
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- HI1996315573320050801
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- HIWMO-HI926
- Note on the perimeter
- Not the best phenological match post is less green than pre fire scene
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 2,820 | Jun 14, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,800 | Aug 14, 2005 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,800 | Jul 22, 2005 | |
| Akone-Pule Hwy Fire | 2,500 | Aug 2, 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.