Wildfires of 1984

Bodfish Fire

1984CaliforniaWildfire

The Bodfish Fire burned 23,178 acres in California, in 1984. MTBS dates its ignition to July 7, 1984.

Size
23,178 acres
Ignition
July 7, 1984

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 23,178 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.579, -118.388.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
23,178 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
26,709 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 7, 1984
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CASQF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3557911838819840707
MTBS assessment
Extended

The three sizes are three measurements: the size the agency reported when the fire was out, the burned area MTBS drew from satellite imagery before and after, and the GIS area inside the final perimeter, unburned islands included. They rarely agree exactly.

Other large fires in California in 198412

FireAcresStartCause
Twin Fire21,497Jul 6, 1984
Unnamed Fire16,668
Bonanza Fire12,101Jun 2, 1984
Grimes Fire10,539May 7, 1984
Site 300 3 Fire6,912Jun 28, 1984
Flat Top Fire6,670May 25, 1984
Squaw Flat Fire6,048Oct 15, 1984
Bidwell Fire6,007Jul 2, 1984
Unnamed Fire5,585Jun 30, 1984
Aguanga Fire5,561May 30, 1984
Twisselman Fire5,094Aug 19, 1984
Lost Horse Fire4,127May 31, 1984

Every fire of 1984 California fire history

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Sources

Perimeters from the National Interagency Fire Center’s Interagency Fire Perimeter History, compiled from the Forest Service, BLM, BIA, Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park Service, the Alaska Interagency Fire Center and CAL FIRE. Burned areas and ignition dates from Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS), a program of the US Geological Survey and the USDA Forest Service. Records before 2014 were joined by this site: a fire report to the burned area its MTBS identifier names, a perimeter to the burned area it lies in when the names or the sizes agree.