Wildfires of 2008

Unnamed Prescribed Fire

2008Liberty County, FloridaPrescribed fire

The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 2,073 acres in Liberty County, Florida, in 2008. It was discovered on May 9, 2008. MTBS dates its ignition to March 5, 2008.

Size
2,073 acres
Discovered
May 9, 2008
Cause
Undetermined

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,024 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.065, -84.912.

The record

Reported final size
2,073 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,024 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,078 acres
Discovered
May 9, 2008, 4:26 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
March 5, 2008
Cause
Undetermined
State
Florida
County
Liberty County
Reporting unit
National Forests in Florida
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
FLFNF
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL3005008493820080305
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
ICS209_2008_FL-FNF-008025

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
Deep Lake Fire8,330Jun 10, 2008Natural
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

Every fire of 2008 Florida fire history

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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.