Deep Lake Fire
The Deep Lake Fire burned 8,330 acres in Florida, in 2008. It was discovered on June 10, 2008, and contained on June 14, 2008. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 8,330 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2008
- Contained
- June 14, 2008
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 8,060 acres. Point of origin as reported, 26.033, -81.300.
The record
- Reported final size
- 8,330 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 8,060 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 8,337 acres
- Discovered
- June 10, 2008, 4:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- June 14, 2008, 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
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2008-FLBCP-000032
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2602908128520080610
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-572961
- 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 200812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mustang Corner Fire | 39,465 | May 14, 2008 | Human |
| Myakka Cut Fire | 38,000 | May 2, 2008 | Human |
| Gum Bay Fire | 10,458 | Feb 11, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 9,129 | Mar 21, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,266 | Jan 25, 2008 | |
| San Filippo Fire | 6,981 | May 12, 2008 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,044 | Jan 25, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,603 | Mar 10, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,953 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,479 | Mar 1, 2008 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,072 | Mar 17, 2008 | |
| Prairie Fire | 4,018 | Feb 20, 2008 | Human |
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.