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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.
Name County Acres Start date Containment date Notes Ref RADAR Polk: 1,300 February 20 March 1 A human-caused wildfire. [2] Brushy Crossing Liberty: 2,215 March 2 2024 Caused at least $40,000 in damage. [3] Olive Branch 664 Hardee: 1,400 May 29 June 6 [4] River Ranch Polk: 3,822 June 6 June 14 Firefighters split the fire into Sections A and B. [5]
Irma caused widespread damage in Florida due to high winds and destructive floods. The Florida Keys were hit the hardest, with the vast majority of infrastructure there receiving some degree of damage, and at least 25% receiving major damage. Hurricane Irma also knocked out power to 73% of the state, or 7.7 million homes and businesses. 2017
Key West is the driest city in Florida, and most of the Florida Keys can become quite dry at the height of the dry season. Some of the more exposed vegetation in the keys is scrub , stunted due to the intense sun, quick draining sandy soil, and arid winter climate.
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 ...
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Presently, many isolated pine rockland sites throughout Miami-Dade County and the lower Keys suffer from fire suppression, leading to drastically altered plant compositions. [26] It is estimated that around 5,000,000 ha of pine rocklands burned in 1926, whereas only 76,486 ha burned in 1995 and 2003. [ 27 ]
The bills would classify police and correctional officers who kill people on the job as crime victims.