Burn Unit 78
The Burn Unit 78 burned 4,383 acres in Florida, in 2013. MTBS dates its ignition to December 4, 2013.
- Size
- 4,383 acres
- Ignition
- December 4, 2013
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 4,383 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 30.053, -84.991.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 4,383 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 4, 2013
- State
- Florida
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- FL3005708497220131204
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Note on the perimeter
- This prescribed fire event is difficult to distinguish from an adjacent prescribed fire event with a proximate ignition date. Therefore this mapping includes the event FL3005908499920131206.
Other large fires in Florida in 201312
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Huckabee Fire | 20,300 | Mar 29, 2013 | Human |
| Holey Land 1 Fire | 9,200 | May 13, 2013 | Natural |
| Low Key Fire | 5,100 | Mar 5, 2013 | Human |
| Center Fire | 2,349 | Apr 1, 2013 | Natural |
| Hopkins Prairie Fire | 1,918 | Mar 2, 2013 | Human |
| Triangle Fire | 1,662 | Apr 18, 2013 | |
| Texas Block (05) Nov Fire | 1,300 | Dec 5, 2013 | Human |
| 328 Ffs Fire | 1,244 | Apr 3, 2013 | Natural |
| Durrance Fire | 1,118 | Mar 2, 2013 | Human |
| May Day Fire | 900 | May 1, 2013 | Human |
| Buck #1 Fire | 819 | Jan 29, 2013 | Human |
| South Road Fire | 777 | Mar 29, 2013 | Human |
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. 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.