Wildfires of 2011

Unnamed Prescribed Fire

2011Osceola County, FloridaPrescribed fire

The Unnamed Prescribed Fire burned 1,200 acres in Osceola County, Florida, in 2011. It was discovered on February 27, 2011, and contained on February 27, 2011. MTBS dates its ignition to February 2, 2011. The cause was recorded as debris and open burning.

Size
1,200 acres
Discovered
February 27, 2011
Contained
February 27, 2011
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,524 acres. Point of origin as reported, 28.079, -80.926.

The record

Reported final size
1,200 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,524 acres
Discovered
February 27, 2011, 2:23 p.m. local time
Ignition (MTBS)
February 2, 2011
Contained
February 27, 2011, 6:10 p.m. local time
Cause
Human, Debris and open burning
State
Florida
County
Osceola County
Land ownership at origin
Private
Reporting unit
Florida Forest Service
Agency
State or local agency
Incident type
Prescribed fire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2804008095320110202
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)
Fire occurrence record
SFO-2011FLFLS2011120160

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

FireAcresStartCause
Prairie Fire68,295Jun 6, 2011Natural
Jarhead Fire38,131Apr 26, 2011Natural
Iron Horse Fire17,000Feb 28, 2011
Impassable Bay Fire11,025Jun 16, 2011Natural
Afternoon Fire10,423Aug 1, 2011Natural
Shanty Fire7,491Aug 23, 2011Natural
Trail 3 Fire7,000Jun 3, 2011Natural
3A North Fire7,000Aug 18, 2011Natural
North Fire5,878Jun 13, 2011Natural
Sante Fe Fire5,679Jun 8, 2011Natural
Espanola Fire5,136May 30, 2011Natural
Ocean Bay Fire3,810Sep 2, 2011Natural

Every fire of 2011 Florida fire history

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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.