Wildfires of 1988

Echo Fire

1988CaliforniaWildland fire use

The Echo Fire burned 1,395 acres in California, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to June 21, 1988.

Size
1,395 acres
Ignition
June 21, 1988

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,395 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 37.752, -119.426.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,395 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
1,424 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
June 21, 1988
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAYNP
Incident type
Wildland fire use
Unique fire identifier
1988-CAYNP-000015
MTBS fire identifier
CA3775211942619880621
MTBS assessment
Extended
Perimeter records
2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
Note on the perimeter
From WFMI

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 198812

FireAcresStartCause
49R Fire36,662Sep 11, 1988
Miller Fire35,729Sep 17, 1988
Piru Fire14,268Sep 3, 1988
Unnamed Fire11,380
Texas Fire10,509Sep 28, 1988
Hermit Fire7,675Sep 28, 1988
Klamath Fire7,128Sep 11, 1988
Bridge Fire6,776Jul 21, 1988
Fern Fire6,411Sep 17, 1988
Cdf 807 Fire6,349
Obelisk Fire5,679Jul 24, 1988
Camp Fire5,628Jul 17, 1988

Every fire of 1988 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.