Bass Lake Fire
The Bass Lake Fire burned 1,000 acres in Florida, in 2007. It was discovered on March 16, 2007, and contained on March 23, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 1,000 acres
- Discovered
- March 16, 2007
- Contained
- March 23, 2007
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 681 acres. Point of origin as reported, 25.908, -81.287.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,000 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 681 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 944 acres
- Discovered
- March 16, 2007, 5:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- March 23, 2007, 11:00 a.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- National Park Service
- Reporting unit
- Big Cypress National Preserve
- Agency
- National Park Service
- Unit
- FLBCP
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2007-FLBCP-000031
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2590208127720070316
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-542663
- Perimeter map method
- Differential GPS
- Note on the perimeter
- From WFMI
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 200712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bugaboo Fire | 124,590 | ||
| Bicy Complex | 63,599 | May 7, 2007 | Natural |
| Moonshine Bay Fire | 43,562 | Feb 25, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 39,000 | Apr 16, 2007 | Human |
| Frog Light Fire | 23,250 | May 28, 2007 | Human |
| Mfc South Fire | 23,096 | Aug 17, 2007 | Natural |
| Mid Rest Fire | 21,151 | ||
| Balsa Fire | 18,027 | May 7, 2007 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 14,626 | May 7, 2007 | Human |
| Darkness Fire | 12,200 | Apr 7, 2007 | Human |
| Aprils Fools Fire | 11,600 | Apr 1, 2007 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,271 | Feb 21, 2007 |
Nearby
Sources
Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL 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.