Larson Fire
The Larson Fire burned 49,298 acres in California, in 1987. MTBS dates its ignition to August 30, 1987.
- Size
- 49,298 acres
- Ignition
- August 30, 1987
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 49,298 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.732, -119.937.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 49,298 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 48,087 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 30, 1987
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CASTF
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- Unique fire identifier
- 1987-CAYNP-000119
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3773211993719870830
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
- Note on the perimeter
- Stanislaus Complex
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| King Titus Fire | 71,333 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Mendenhall Fire | 65,468 | ||
| Yellow 2 Fire | 53,586 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Paper Fire | 49,333 | Aug 31, 1987 | |
| Hamm Fire | 39,369 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Clark Fire | 39,235 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Fort Copper Fire | 36,302 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Lost Fire | 23,588 | Aug 31, 1987 | |
| Ten Bald Fire | 19,621 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Lake Fire | 18,413 | Sep 1, 1987 | |
| Hotelling Fire | 17,603 | Aug 30, 1987 | |
| Fouts Fire | 16,363 |
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.