California, 2001

Wildfire in California, July 9 to 10, 2001

July 9 to 10, 2001 · NWS SGX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A brush fire burnt 350 acres near East Benton and Balinger roads in rough hilly terrain.

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS SGX wrote it up.

A brush fire burnt 350 acres near East Benton and Balinger roads in rough hilly terrain.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS San Diego, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 9, 12:34 PM PST, 26 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 9, 12:34 PM PST, 26 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
230 PM PDT MON JUL 9 2001

                             ...SYNOPSIS...

THE MARINE LAYER AND ONSHORE FLOW WILL CAUSE NIGHT AND MORNING COASTAL
LOW CLOUDS AND FOG. OTHERWISE...DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL KEEP THE
WEATHER FAIR EXCEPT FOR SOME HIGH CLOUDS WEDNESDAY.

                            ...DISCUSSION...

LOW CLOUDS/LOCAL FOG WERE INTO COASTAL AREAS AND MOST OF SAN INLAND
VALLEYS THIS AM...OTHERWISE CLEAR. 12Z NKX SOUNDING HAD INVERSION BASED
NEAR 1800 FT WITH SW WINDS ALOFT. ONSHORE GRADIENTS WITH 7-8 MB SAN-IPL.
SOME CU DEVELOPED OVER THE HIGHER MAINTAINS LATE THIS MORNING AND
AFTERNOON.

UPPER HI REMAINS OVER W-CENTRAL US WITH UPPER TROUGH OFF W COAST FOR AT
LEAST THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. THIS WILL MAINTAIN GENERALLY DRY SW FLOW
ALOFT. HOWEVER...ETA AND NGM BRING A WEAK VORT MAX AND ASSOCIATED RH UP
FROM THE SW LATE TUE INTO WED. PREFERRED AVN DOES NOT BRING ANY
SIGNIFICANT VORT MAX OR RH UP FROM THE SW. EVEN IF ETA/NGM DO VERIFY...
MOST OF THE RH IS ABOVE 500 MB SO WE SHOULD JUST GET SOME MID AND HI
CLOUDS. SLOW DECREASE IN LOCAL HEIGHTS. JUST MINOR CHANGES IN THICKNESS/
850 MB TEMPS...BESIDE THE USUAL DIURNAL FLUCTUATION. EXPECT LITTLE
CHANGE IN MARINE LAYER AND MINOR TEMP CHANGES OR JUST SLIGHT COOLING THE
NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS.

LONGER RANGE PROGS START OUT IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT AND THEN DIVERGE
TOWARD THE END OF THE EXTENDED PERIOD. THEY STILL BASICALLY INDICATE DRY
SW FLOW ALOFT. NO JUSTIFICATION FOR UNWARRANTED DETAILS IN THE EXTENDED
SO WILL CONTINUE WITH LITTLE CHANGE FORECAST.

.SAN...NONE.

ATKIN
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The radar

The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, Riverside

When
July 9, 1:00 PM PST to July 10, 6:00 PM PST
Where
Riverside County, 3 mi E of Rancho California
Reported by
NEWSPAPER
Coordinates
33.744, -115.994 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

What these are

Wildfire
A fire burning in wildland vegetation, with its acreage and damage where known.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5258019.