Poppy Fire

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,226 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.745, -118.371.

Burned area mapped by MTBS

1,226 acres

Area inside the final perimeter

1,162 acres

Ignition (MTBS)

August 17, 1986

State

California

Agency

CAL FIRE

Unit

CALAC

Incident type

Wildfire

MTBS fire identifier

CA3474511837119860817

MTBS assessment

Initial

Perimeter records

2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown

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.

Every fire of 1986 California fire history

• Lake Hughes, CA6 miles southwest of the fire
• Green Valley, CA9 miles south of the fire
• Leona Valley, CA10 miles southeast of the fire
• Quartz Hill, CA11 miles southeast of the fire
• Lancaster, CA14 miles east of the fire
• Rosamond, CA14 miles northeast of the fire

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.