Wildfires of 1987

Merced Falls Fire

1987CaliforniaWildfire

The Merced Falls Fire burned 1,723 acres in California, in 1987. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,723 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,723 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 37.593, -120.294.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,723 acres
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAMMU
Incident type
Wildfire

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

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. 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.