Wildfire in California, October 1 to 25, 2005

Name: Wildfire in California, October 1 to 25, 2005
Start: 2005-10-01T09:00
End: 2005-10-25T15:00
Location: California

October 1 to 25, 2005 · NWS HNX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.

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 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 Hanford, CA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 1, 8:15 AM PST, 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 1, 8:15 AM PST, 45 minutes before

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Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, S Sierra Mtns

When: October 1, 9:00 AM PST to October 25, 3:00 PM PST
Where: S Sierra Mtns forecast zone
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE

The Wapama Complex Fire in Yosemite National Park was initially a deemed a prescribed burn initiated around September 20th by lightning but a later request on October 1st re-assigned the burn as a wildfire. The fire's location was 20 miles northwest of Yosemite Village and burned 1014 acres at a cost of $280K to battle the blaze. No injuries occurred nor were structures lost.

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

Every storm in California in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in California, October 2005

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5479181.