Wildfires of 1990

Grapevine Fire

1990CaliforniaWildfire

The Grapevine Fire burned 2,368 acres in California, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to October 8, 1990.

Size
2,368 acres
Ignition
October 8, 1990

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,368 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.552, -119.083.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,368 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,379 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
October 8, 1990
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CATUU
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3655211908319901008
MTBS assessment
Initial (SS)

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
Finley Fire22,228Aug 9, 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

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.