East Tucker Fire
The East Tucker Fire burned 1,003 acres in Florida, in 2008. It was discovered on May 12, 2008, and contained on May 23, 2008. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use. Incident teams reported 1 structure destroyed.
- Size
- 1,003 acres
- Discovered
- May 12, 2008
- Contained
- May 23, 2008
- Cause
- Human
- Structures destroyed
- 1
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 844 acres. Point of origin as reported, 27.100, -81.033.
The record
- Reported final size
- 1,003 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 844 acres
- Discovered
- May 12, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Contained
- May 23, 2008, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Reporting unit
- Seminole Tribe
- Agency
- Bureau of Indian Affairs
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL2709008104020080512
- MTBS assessment
- Initial (SS)
- Fire occurrence record
- W-578326
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.
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 11, from May 14, 2008 to May 24, 2008. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Structures destroyed
- 1
- Most structures threatened at once
- 64
- Most personnel assigned
- 15 on May 15, 2008
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Southern Rough
- Suppression strategy reported
- Full suppression
Acres reported by day
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2008 | 1,000 | |
| May 15, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 16, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 17, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 18, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 19, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 20, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 21, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 22, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 23, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
| May 24, 2008 | 1,000 | 0 |
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 | |
| Deep Lake Fire | 8,330 | Jun 10, 2008 | Natural |
| 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 |
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. Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.