Name: Wildfire in California, May 26 to 31, 2014
Start: 2014-05-26T00:00
End: 2014-05-31T23:59
Location: California

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $1.0 million
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 HNX wrote it up.

The Hunters wildfire was managed by CalFire. Ignition was 5/26/14 and the cause was unknown. The location was 5 miles south of Coulterville, CA (Mariposa County) and the size was 677 acres. Containment was reached on 6/2 and the cost to containment was $4.4 Million. There were two residences lost and one outbuilding. There were no fatalities and unknown injuries.

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 May 25, 2:00 PM PST, 10 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 25, 2:00 PM PST, 10 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD CA
300 PM PDT SUN MAY 25 2014

.SYNOPSIS...
THE REMAINDER OF THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND WILL BE DRY AND MUCH
WARMER AS A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE BUILDS IN OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA.
TEMPERATURES WILL THEN TREND DOWNWARD THROUGH THE WEEK AS A LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPS ALONG THE WEST COAST.

&&

.DISCUSSION...
EPAC RIDGE AXIS CONTINUES TO MOVE IN OVER THE CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
INTERIOR TODAY AND SHIFTS EAST MONDAY AND TUESDAY. HOTTEST TEMPS
ARE STILL EXPECTED TOMORROW WITH OFFSHORE FLOW SETTING UP. ONCE
THE RIDGE SLIDES EAST...THE RETURN FLOW WILL BRING ONSHORE FLOW
BACK INTO THE REGION AND WE WILL SEE COOLING ACROSS THE NRN SJV AS
THE DELTA BREEZE SETS UP AND BRINGS IN OCEAN COOLED AIRMASS.

AN UPPER TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE WILL DROP OUT OF THE GULF OF AK
AND MOVE SOUTH INTO THE PAC NW BY LATE TUESDAY AND EARLY WED WITH
INCREASED ONSHORE FLOW AND SYNOPTIC COOLING ACROSS THE REGION TO
JUST ABOVE SEASONAL TEMPS. THE TROUGH WILL BE VERY SLOW TO DIG
SOUTH ALONG THE COAST AND RMOP /RELATIVE MEASURE OF PREDICTABILITY/
IS LOW. HOWEVER TREND IS ON TRACK AND THE MODELS ARE TRENDING
TOWARDS COOLER TEMPS BY NEXT WEEKEND. WE ARE EXPECTING TO REMAIN
DRY THROUGH THE FORECAST WITH ONLY A SLIGHT CHANCE OF AN AFTERNOON
SHOWER THIS AFTERNOON...THEN DRY.

&&

.AVIATION...
VFR CONDITIONS WILL PREVAIL ACROSS THE AREA DURING THE NEXT 24 HOURS.

&&

.AIR QUALITY ISSUES...
NONE.

&&

.CERTAINTY...

THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 1 AND 2 IS HIGH.
THE LEVEL OF CERTAINTY FOR DAYS 3 THROUGH 7 IS MEDIUM.

THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED AS PART OF A TRIAL PROJECT CONDUCTED
BY THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY - HANFORD.
CERTAINTY LEVELS INCLUDE LOW...MEDIUM...AND HIGH. PLEASE VISIT
WWW.WEATHER.GOV/HNX/CERTAINTY.PHP /ALL LOWER CASE/ FOR ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND/OR TO PROVIDE FEEDBACK.

&&

.CLIMATE...
             RECORDS
SITE DATE    HI_MAX:YEAR LO_MAX:YEAR HI_MIN:YEAR LO_MIN:YEAR

KFAT 05-25      102:1890     59:1906     68:1890     42:1980
KFAT 05-26      103:1974     66:1946     68:1951     40:1953
KFAT 05-27      104:1974     55:1971     69:1896     46:1998

KBFL 05-25      106:1982     58:2008     77:1982     39:1893
KBFL 05-26      107:1951     68:1998     72:1979     40:1918
KBFL 05-27      106:1974     66:1971     75:1974     42:1917
&&

.HNX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.

&&

PUBLIC...JDB
AVN/FW...DCH
SYNOPSIS...PJ

WEATHER.GOV/HANFORD

Event by event

1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.

Wildfire, S Sierra Foothills

When: May 26, 12:00 AM PST to May 31, 11:59 PM PST
Where: S Sierra Foothills forecast zone
Property damage: $1.0 million
Reported by: Park/Forest Service

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

More

Every storm in California in 2014 Every state in 2014 This day in weather history Warnings in California, May 2014

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: 510293.