Vail Fire
The Vail Fire burned 15,622 acres in California, in 1989. MTBS dates its ignition to July 29, 1989.
- Size
- 15,622 acres
- Ignition
- July 29, 1989
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 15,622 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.420, -116.947.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 15,622 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 15,808 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- July 29, 1989
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CARRU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3342111694719890729
- 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 198912
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mateo Fire | 13,266 | Oct 18, 1989 | |
| Powerhouse Fire | 11,533 | Jul 28, 1989 | |
| Chispa Fire | 9,873 | Jul 27, 1989 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,741 | Jul 29, 1989 | |
| Ortega Fire | 8,493 | Jun 27, 1989 | |
| Yorba Fire | 7,022 | Nov 30, 1989 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,580 | Aug 11, 1989 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,906 | Jun 21, 1989 | |
| Thing 2 Fire | 4,649 | Jul 9, 1989 | |
| Layman Fire | 4,638 | Sep 6, 1989 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 4,579 | ||
| Eagle Fire | 4,484 | Jul 7, 1989 |
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.