Mustang Corner Fire
200838,578 acresFlorida
The Mustang Corner Fire burned 38,578 acres, about 60 square miles, across Miami-Dade County. It began on May 14, 2008.
Watch how it happenedMustang Corner Fire · 2008
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 | 48% | 18,685 |
| Unburned to lowislands inside the perimeter, little change | 7.4% | 2,859 |
| Increased greennessvegetation greener after the fire than before | 0.1% | 43 |
| Not mappedcloud, shadow or water in the satellite images | 44% | 16,991 |
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.
| Miami-Dade County | FL | 38,599 |
Other large fires in Florida in 2008
- Myakka Cut Fire36,847 acres
Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (USGS and U.S. Forest Service). Type recorded: Other.