Klamath Fire
The Klamath Fire burned 7,128 acres in California, in 1988. MTBS dates its ignition to September 11, 1988.
- Size
- 7,128 acres
- Ignition
- September 11, 1988
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 7,128 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.611, -124.002.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 7,128 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 6,159 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 11, 1988
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAHUU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4161212400419880911
- 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 | |
| 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 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,570 | Oct 20, 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.