Waikoloa Fire
The Waikoloa Fire burned 9,138 acres in Hawaii County, Hawaii, in 2007. It was discovered on July 1, 2007.
- Size
- 9,138 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,802 acres. Point of origin as reported, 19.924, -155.782.
The record
- Reported final size
- 9,138 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,802 acres
- Discovered
- July 1, 2007
- Cause
- Undetermined
- State
- Hawaii
- County
- Hawaii County
- Reporting unit
- State of Hawaii
- Agency
- State or local agency
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- HI1987815576820070701
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- HIWMO-HI1028
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 7,000 | Aug 12, 2007 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,640 | Jan 29, 2007 | |
| Olowalu Fire | 2,600 | Jun 27, 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.