Wildfires of 2008

Deep Lake Fire

2008FloridaWildfire

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

FireAcresStartCause
Mustang Corner Fire39,465May 14, 2008Human
Myakka Cut Fire38,000May 2, 2008Human
Gum Bay Fire10,458Feb 11, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire9,129Mar 21, 2008
Unnamed Fire8,266Jan 25, 2008
San Filippo Fire6,981May 12, 2008Human
Unnamed Fire6,044Jan 25, 2008
Unnamed Fire5,603Mar 10, 2008
Unnamed Fire4,953Mar 17, 2008
Unnamed Fire4,479Mar 1, 2008
Unnamed Fire4,072Mar 17, 2008
Prairie Fire4,018Feb 20, 2008Human

Every fire of 2008 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.