Unnamed Fire
200732,568 acresFlorida
The Unnamed Fire burned 32,568 acres, about 51 square miles, across Broward County. It began on April 17, 2007.
Watch how it happenedUnnamed Fire · 2007
How it happened
Watch it burn in the order satellites saw it, coloured by how severely each place burned.
How severely it burned
Burn severity inside the final perimeter, classified from Landsat images taken before and after the fire.
| Severity | Share | Acres |
|---|---|---|
| Lowsurface fire, most trees survive | 46% | 15,094 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 0.3% | 112 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 53% | 17,363 |
Most of the area inside the perimeter burned at low severity or not at all.
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (U.S. Geological Survey and USDA Forest Service). Classes come from the change in a Landsat burn index (dNBR) between images before and after the fire; acres are each class’s share of the fire’s mapped area.
Where it burned
Acres inside each county, measured from the satellite-mapped perimeter.
| Broward County | FL | 32,577 |
Other large fires in Florida in 2007
- Big Turnaround Complex328,707 acres
- Bicy Complex60,595 acres
- Moonshine Bay Fire38,633 acres
- Mfc South Fire37,266 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Wildfire.