Wildfires of 2005

Unnamed Fire

2005Lake County, FloridaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 1,249 acres in Lake County, Florida, in 2005. It was discovered on February 14, 2005, and contained on February 14, 2005. MTBS dates its ignition to February 15, 2005. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,249 acres
Discovered
February 14, 2005
Contained
February 14, 2005
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,583 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.849, -81.411.

The record

Reported final size
1,249 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,583 acres
Discovered
February 14, 2005, 12:25 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
February 15, 2005
Contained
February 14, 2005, 6:30 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Florida
County
Lake County
Land ownership at origin
State
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2884508141020050215
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2005FLFLS2005110138
Note on the perimeter
Upland mix Upland evergreen and shrub

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 200512

FireAcresStartCause
Unnamed Fire11,544Jan 25, 2005
Unnamed Fire6,569Apr 5, 2005
Unnamed Fire5,487Feb 7, 2005
Unnamed Fire5,381May 13, 2005
Unnamed Fire5,368Feb 22, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,829Apr 28, 2005
Unnamed Fire4,407Jan 21, 2005
Beetle Fire4,385Oct 23, 2005Human
Unnamed Fire4,039Jan 24, 2005
Unnamed Fire3,817May 13, 2005
Unnamed Fire3,312Jan 20, 2005
Unnamed Fire3,140Apr 29, 2005

Every fire of 2005 Florida 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.