Wildfires of 1990

Finley Fire

1990CaliforniaWildfire

The Finley Fire burned 22,228 acres in California, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to August 9, 1990.

Size
22,228 acres
Ignition
August 9, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 22,228 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.339, -121.811.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
22,228 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
35,862 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 9, 1990
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CALNF
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA4033912181119900809
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 199012

FireAcresStartCause
Campbell Fire128,188Aug 6, 1990
Stormy Fire23,149Aug 5, 1990
Los Padres Fire20,540
Shinn Fire17,981Aug 8, 1990
A-Rock Fire17,722Aug 7, 1990
Branham Fire9,566Aug 8, 1990
Tejon Fire7,657Aug 7, 1990
Steamboat Fire6,009Aug 7, 1990
Mattole Fire5,213Aug 8, 1990
Carbon Canyon Fire4,978
Carbon Canyon Fire4,967Jun 27, 1990
Campbell Fire4,802Aug 10, 1990

Every fire of 1990 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.