Wildfire, San Bernardino
- When
- June 17, 12:00 PM PST to 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- San Bernardino County, 4 mi NE of Big Bear Lake
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 34.841, -116.178 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Wildfire in California, June 17, 2001
About 25 acres had burned as of Sunday afternoon in Horse Thief Canyon.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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.
About 25 acres had burned as of Sunday afternoon in Horse Thief Canyon.
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 Jun 17, 8:25 AM PST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 17, 8:25 AM PST, 3 hours 35 minutes before
EXTREME SOUTHWESTERN CALIFORNIA AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
925 AM PDT SUN JUN 17 2001
...SYNOPSIS...
HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL BRING DRY...WARM WEATHER TO SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA THIS WEEK. COASTAL MORNING CLOUDS AND DENSE FOG MAY LINGER
AT SOME BEACHES EACH AFTERNOON.
...DISCUSSION...
MARINE LAYER DEPTH THIS MORNING WAS 1200 FEET...AND IT HAS NOT CHANGED
MUCH THE PAST FEW DAYS. WITH HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT...IT MAY SHRINK A
LITTLE FURTHER THIS WEEK. THE INVERSION WILL STRENGTHEN AS TEMPS ABOVE
THIS LAYER RISE A DEGREE OR TWO...AND THIS MAY KEEP AFTERNOON CLOUDS
LINGERING AT SOME OF THE BEACHES THIS WEEK. THE MESO ETA SPINS UP AN
INTERMITTENT WEAK COASTAL EDDY AT TIMES...MAINLY IN THE LATE NIGHT AND
EARLY MORNING HOURS...BUT A STRONG PERSISTENT EDDY IS UNLIKELY WITH
THIS SYNOPTIC PATTERN.
IN THE EXTENDED...THE MRF PROJECTS A SHORT WAVE TROF TO DIG ALONG THE
WEST COAST NEXT WEEKEND. IF THIS PATTERN DEVELOPS IT WOULD LEAD TO
SLIGHTLY COOLER WEATHER AND A DEEPER MARINE LAYER SATURDAY AND
SUNDAY...BUT THERE IS TOO MUCH UNCERTAINTY TO PUT INTO THE FORECAS?T AT
THIS TIME.
WILL UPDATE FORECAST TO CLEAN UP FIRST PERIOD WORDING.
SAN 000
.SAN...NONE.
MOEDEThe radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- Heat in Illinois, June 17, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Massachusetts, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in Rhode Island, June 17, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Connecticut, June 17, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, June 17, 2001
- Wildfire in California, June 17 to 18, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Florida, June 17, 2001
- Tornado in Maine, June 17, 2001
More
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, June 2001
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: 5252039.