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The 2024 Florida wildfire season was series of wildfires that burned throughout the U.S. state of Florida. As of 2 June 2024, over 1,100 fires were reported, burning over 24,000 acres of land, according to the Florida Forest Service .
The wildfire then grew to 8,400 acres (13.1 sq mi) by May 7, [17] and 10,000 acres (16 sq mi) by the next day, as did the containment of the fire, which increased to 5%. [18] Evacuation plans were then implemented on May 11 in Ochopee as the wildfire grew to more than 11,000 acres (17 sq mi), also being 20% contained.
Each day during the fire season, national maps of selected fire weather and Fire danger components of the National Fire Danger Rating System are produced by the Wildland Fire Assessment System (WFAS-MAPS), located at the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station in Missoula, Montana. Current fire danger and forecast fire danger maps ...
Martin County Fire Rescue and Florida Forest Service officials work to contain a 7-acre wildfire on Southwest Citrus Boulevard in Palm City reported April 28, 2024. The fire was 100 percent ...
The Florida Forest service deployed 18 tractor plow units, multiple fixed wing aircraft, and helicopter units in addition to the many local fire departments that have responded to fight the fire.
As a former forester with the Florida Forest Service, I have been aware of many instances where wildfires damaged homes. The worst in my recent memory took place on May 17, 1985, a day that became ...
The 1998 Florida wildfires, sometimes referred to as the Florida Firestorm, was a wildfire event involving several thousand separate woodland and mixed urban-rural wildfires which wrought severe damage during the summer months of 1998. Wildfires sparked mainly by lightning threatened to converge into single, vast blazes, crossed natural ...
The brush fire started Thursday in the wooded area off I-95 and around state Route 714 and Southwest Martin Highway. It initially spread over 30 to 40 acres, as embers got across the control lines ...