New Smyrna 44/95 Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,560 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.027, -81.014.

Reported final size

1,569 acres

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,560 acres

Discovered

May 7, 2006, 1:03 p.m. local time

Contained

May 31, 2006, 10:00 a.m. local time

Cause

Human, Undetermined

State

Florida

County

Volusia County

Land ownership at origin

Private

Reporting unit

Florida Forest Service

Agency

State or local agency

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

FL2902808100020060507

MTBS assessment

Initial

Fire occurrence record

SFO-2006FLFLS2006100498

Note on the perimeter

Upland Evergreen and Wet Mixed

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.

The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 28, from May 7, 2006 to June 26, 2006. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.

Structures destroyed

1 (1 residence)

Structures damaged

1 (1 residence)

Most structures threatened at once

914

Most personnel assigned

134 on May 12, 2006

Cost reported by the teams

$532,550, in 2006 dollars

Cause on the reports

Human

Primary fuel model reported

Southern Rough

Acres reported by day

The largest rise between two days’ reports was 700 acres, on May 8, 2006.

Every fire of 2006 Florida fire history

• Glencoe, FL3 miles east of the fire
• Samsula-Spruce Creek, FL3 miles northwest of the fire
• New Smyrna Beach, FL5 miles east of the fire
• Ponce Inlet, FL7 miles northeast of the fire
• Edgewater, FL7 miles east of the fire
• Port Orange, FL8 miles north of the fire

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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.