Impassable Bay Fire
The Impassable Bay Fire burned 11,025 acres in Florida, in 2011. It was discovered on June 16, 2011, and contained on July 5, 2011. MTBS dates its ignition to June 6, 2011. The cause was recorded as natural.
- Size
- 11,025 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2011
- Contained
- July 5, 2011
- Cause
- Natural
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 11,887 acres. Point of origin as reported, 30.409, -82.480.
The record
- Reported final size
- 11,025 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 11,887 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 11,267 acres
- Discovered
- June 16, 2011, 6:30 p.m. local time
- Ignition (MTBS)
- June 6, 2011
- Contained
- July 5, 2011, 6:00 p.m. local time
- Cause
- Natural
- State
- Florida
- Land ownership at origin
- Forest Service
- Reporting unit
- National Forests in Florida
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- FLFNF
- Part of
- Impassable Bay Complex
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL3040908248020110606
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- FS-1495659
- Perimeter map method
- GPS - Uncorrected Data
- Note on the perimeter
- lightning fire in Impassable Bay located east of FRS 272 & North of FRS 212. This part of the Impassable Bay Complete. Type 2 Team was responsible for the fire
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 201112
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prairie Fire | 68,295 | Jun 6, 2011 | Natural |
| Jarhead Fire | 38,131 | Apr 26, 2011 | Natural |
| Iron Horse Fire | 17,000 | Feb 28, 2011 | |
| Afternoon Fire | 10,423 | Aug 1, 2011 | Natural |
| Shanty Fire | 7,491 | Aug 23, 2011 | Natural |
| Trail 3 Fire | 7,000 | Jun 3, 2011 | Natural |
| 3A North Fire | 7,000 | Aug 18, 2011 | Natural |
| North Fire | 5,878 | Jun 13, 2011 | Natural |
| Sante Fe Fire | 5,679 | Jun 8, 2011 | Natural |
| Espanola Fire | 5,136 | May 30, 2011 | Natural |
| Ocean Bay Fire | 3,810 | Sep 2, 2011 | Natural |
| Truck Trail 1 Fire | 3,701 | Apr 30, 2011 | Natural |
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.