Cpi 7 Fire
The Cpi 7 Fire was reported on March 3, 2018 in Hendry County, Florida and burned 4,107 acres. It was declared out on May 18, 2018.
- Size
- 4,107 acres
- Contained
- 90%
- Discovered
- March 3, 2018
- Personnel
- 7
Map
Perimeters are published for fires from 2020 on; the map shows this fire’s point of origin. Point of origin 26.285, -81.017.
The incident
- Size
- 4,107 acres
- Containment
- 90%
- Discovered
- March 3, 2018 at 1:00 PM EST
- Contained
- March 8, 2018 at 8:00 AM EST
- Controlled
- April 24, 2018 at 8:00 AM EDT
- Declared out
- May 18, 2018 at 8:00 AM EDT
- Cause
- Not reported
- Location
- Native area between West Feeder Canal and Big Cypress Preserve
- County
- Hendry County
- State
- Florida
- Nearest city reported
- Clewiston
- Protecting agency
- BIA
- Land ownership at origin
- BIA
- Personnel assigned
- 7
- Incident management
- Type 4 IC
- Primary fuel
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Estimated cost to date
- $30,000
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 2018-FLSEA-0000001
- IRWIN identifier
- F7C0A3FC-7EEB-4B30-8A8F-798903A3088B
From the incident teams’ reports
The status summaries (ICS-209 forms) the incident teams filed: 4, from March 4, 2018 to March 7, 2018. These are the teams’ own estimates, written while the incident was running, and personnel is totaled from the resources each report lists. A fact the reports leave blank is not shown, and a zero on the form is treated as blank.
- Most personnel assigned
- 11 on March 5, 2018
- Most aircraft assigned
- 1
- Cost reported by the teams
- $30,000, in 2018 dollars
- Cause on the reports
- Human
- Primary fuel model reported
- Timber (Litter and Understory)
- Suppression strategy reported
- Confine
Acres reported by day
The largest rise between two days’ reports was 2,637 acres, on March 6, 2018.
Reported acres by day, as a table
| Day | Acres | Change from the day before |
|---|---|---|
| Mar 4, 2018 | 1,470 | |
| Mar 5, 2018 | 1,470 | 0 |
| Mar 6, 2018 | 4,107 | +2,637 |
| Mar 7, 2018 | 4,107 | 0 |
Weather in the area
This fire is no longer listed as current. The forecast for Montura, FL covers the area today.
Nearby
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Incident record from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Wildland Fire Interagency Geospatial Services (WFIGS), as the incident’s managers report it; last updated May 18, 2018 at 10:43 AM EDT. Identifier 2018-FLSEA-0000001.
Incident figures from ICS-209-PLUS: St. Denis, Lise A., Karen C. Short, Kathryn McConnell, Maxwell C. Cook, Nathan P. Mietkiewicz, Mollie Buckland and Jennifer K. Balch, 2023, All-hazards dataset mined from the US National Incident Management System 1999-2020, Scientific Data 10, 112, doi.org/10.1038/s41597-023-01955-0; data on figshare, doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.19858927.v3, licensed CC BY 4.0. This site matched each incident to the fire by the dataset’s own links where it has them, and otherwise by name, start date, state and size, and left out figures too large to be possible for a fire of its size.