Wildfires of 1987

Acorn Fire

1987CaliforniaWildfire

The Acorn Fire burned 6,347 acres in California, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to July 29, 1987.

Size
6,347 acres
Ignition
July 29, 1987

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,347 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 38.789, -119.822.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
6,347 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
6,354 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 29, 1987
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
NVHTF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3878911982219870729
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter records
3 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.

Other large fires in California in 198712

FireAcresStartCause
King Titus Fire71,333Aug 30, 1987
Mendenhall Fire65,468
Yellow 2 Fire53,586Aug 30, 1987
Paper Fire49,333Aug 31, 1987
Larson Fire49,298Aug 30, 1987
Hamm Fire39,369Aug 30, 1987
Clark Fire39,235Aug 30, 1987
Fort Copper Fire36,302Aug 30, 1987
Lost Fire23,588Aug 31, 1987
Ten Bald Fire19,621Aug 30, 1987
Lake Fire18,413Sep 1, 1987
Hotelling Fire17,603Aug 30, 1987

Every fire of 1987 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.