Wildfires of 2013

Buck #1 Fire

2013Franklin County, FloridaWildfire

The Buck #1 Fire burned 819 acres in Franklin County, Florida, in 2013. It was discovered on January 29, 2013, and contained on February 4, 2013. The cause was recorded as human.

Size
819 acres
Discovered
January 29, 2013
Contained
February 4, 2013
Cause
Human

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,186 acres. Point of origin as reported, 29.926, -84.947.

The record

Reported final size
819 acres
Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,186 acres
Discovered
January 29, 2013, 8:42 a.m. local time
Contained
February 4, 2013, 8:00 a.m. local time
Cause
Human, Undetermined
State
Florida
County
Franklin County
Land ownership at origin
Forest Service
Reporting unit
National Forests in Florida
Agency
Forest Service
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
FL2992508494720130129
MTBS assessment
Initial
Fire occurrence record
FS-1512176

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 201311

FireAcresStartCause
Huckabee Fire20,300Mar 29, 2013Human
Holey Land 1 Fire9,200May 13, 2013Natural
Low Key Fire5,100Mar 5, 2013Human
Center Fire2,349Apr 1, 2013Natural
Hopkins Prairie Fire1,918Mar 2, 2013Human
Triangle Fire1,662Apr 18, 2013
Texas Block (05) Nov Fire1,300Dec 5, 2013Human
328 Ffs Fire1,244Apr 3, 2013Natural
Durrance Fire1,118Mar 2, 2013Human
May Day Fire900May 1, 2013Human
South Road Fire777Mar 29, 2013Human

Every fire of 2013 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.