Wildfires of 1985

Miller Fire

1985CaliforniaWildfire

The Miller Fire burned 2,027 acres in California, in 1985. MTBS dates its ignition to August 31, 1985.

Size
2,027 acres
Ignition
August 31, 1985

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,027 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.446, -122.093.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,027 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
3,622 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 31, 1985
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CALNU
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3844612209319850831
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 198512

FireAcresStartCause
Wheeler 2 Fire126,905Jul 1, 1985
Las Pilitas Fire75,969Jul 1, 1985
Gorda-Rat Fire56,158
Ferndale Fire46,736Oct 14, 1985
Cherry Fire40,642
Cabanzo Fire20,971
Unnamed Fire14,370
Lexington Fire11,541Jul 7, 1985
Onion Fire8,574Jul 6, 1985
Miller Fire8,270
Rich Bar Fire8,138Jun 28, 1985
Roblar Fire8,136

Every fire of 1985 California fire history

Nearby

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.