Wildfires of 2007

Bicy Complex

2007FloridaWildfire

The Bicy Complex burned 63,599 acres in Florida, in 2007. It was discovered on May 7, 2007, and contained on June 11, 2007. The cause was recorded as natural.

Size
63,599 acres
Discovered
May 7, 2007
Contained
June 11, 2007
Cause
Natural

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 60,595 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.212, -80.969.

The record

Reported final size
63,599 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
60,595 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
36,348 acres
Discovered
May 7, 2007, 3:37 p.m. local time
Contained
June 11, 2007, 6:00 p.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
Part of
Big Cypress Complex
Incident type
Wildfire
Unique fire identifier
2007-FLBCP-000039
MTBS fire identifier
FL2602008107320070507
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
W-542063
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

FireAcresStartCause
Bugaboo Fire124,590
Moonshine Bay Fire43,562Feb 25, 2007Human
Unnamed Fire39,000Apr 16, 2007Human
Frog Light Fire23,250May 28, 2007Human
Mfc South Fire23,096Aug 17, 2007Natural
Mid Rest Fire21,151
Balsa Fire18,027May 7, 2007Natural
Unnamed Fire14,626May 7, 2007Human
Darkness Fire12,200Apr 7, 2007Human
Aprils Fools Fire11,600Apr 1, 2007Human
Unnamed Fire9,271Feb 21, 2007
Maltese Fire8,700Oct 5, 2007Natural

Every fire of 2007 Florida fire history

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.