Bottcher Fire
The Bottcher Fire burned 2,680 acres in California, in 1986. MTBS dates its ignition to November 6, 1986.
- Size
- 2,680 acres
- Ignition
- November 6, 1986
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,680 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.352, -121.795.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,680 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 2,557 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- November 6, 1986
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CALPF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3635212179519861106
- 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 198612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed Fire | 16,383 | May 12, 1986 | |
| Los Alamos Fire | 12,140 | ||
| Deer Fire | 10,959 | Sep 9, 1986 | |
| Bradley Fire | 10,102 | Nov 10, 1986 | |
| Nscription Fire | 4,708 | May 30, 1986 | |
| River Fire | 4,617 | Nov 6, 1986 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,402 | Sep 15, 1986 | |
| Tecalote Fire | 4,083 | Jul 20, 1986 | |
| Fredricksburg Fire | 3,603 | Jul 16, 1986 | |
| Lowes Fire | 2,852 | ||
| Unnamed Fire | 2,809 | Jun 9, 1986 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 2,541 | Jul 31, 1986 |
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.