El Torro Fire
The El Torro Fire burned 1,060 acres in California, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to December 9, 1988.
- Size
- 1,060 acres
- Ignition
- December 9, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,060 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.737, -117.369.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,060 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,446 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- December 9, 1988
- State
- California
- Agency
- CAL FIRE
- Unit
- CARRU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3373811736919881209
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| 49R Fire | 36,662 | Sep 11, 1988 | |
| Miller Fire | 35,729 | Sep 17, 1988 | |
| Piru Fire | 14,268 | Sep 3, 1988 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,380 | ||
| Texas Fire | 10,509 | Sep 28, 1988 | |
| Hermit Fire | 7,675 | Sep 28, 1988 | |
| Klamath Fire | 7,128 | Sep 11, 1988 | |
| Bridge Fire | 6,776 | Jul 21, 1988 | |
| Fern Fire | 6,411 | Sep 17, 1988 | |
| Cdf 807 Fire | 6,349 | ||
| Obelisk Fire | 5,679 | Jul 24, 1988 | |
| Camp Fire | 5,628 | Jul 17, 1988 |
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.