Olowalu Fire
The Olowalu Fire burned 2,600 acres in Maui County, Hawaii, in 2007. It was discovered on June 27, 2007.
- Size
- 2,600 acres
- Discovered
- June 27, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,559 acres. Point of origin as reported, 20.812, -156.622.
The record
- Reported final size
- 2,600 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,559 acres
- Discovered
- June 27, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Hawaii
- County
- Maui County
- Reporting unit
- State of Hawaii
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- HI2083315662720070627
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- HIWMO-MA6
- Note on the perimeter
- manually recoded gaps to class 6
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 200710
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Waikoloa Fire | 9,138 | Jul 1, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | Aug 12, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,640 | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,300 | Jul 27, 2007 | |
| Upper Waiohuli Fire | 2,291 | Jan 23, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,930 | Jul 1, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Oct 28, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,500 | Feb 17, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,349 | Feb 19, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 1,000 | Jun 4, 2007 |
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.