Island Fire
The Island Fire burned 1,474 acres in California, in 1990. MTBS dates its ignition to September 23, 1990.
- Size
- 1,474 acres
- Ignition
- September 23, 1990
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,474 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 40.036, -123.498.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,474 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 1,453 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 23, 1990
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CAHUU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4003612349819900923
- 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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell Fire | 128,188 | Aug 6, 1990 | |
| Stormy Fire | 23,149 | Aug 5, 1990 | |
| Finley Fire | 22,228 | Aug 9, 1990 | |
| Los Padres Fire | 20,540 | ||
| Shinn Fire | 17,981 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| A-Rock Fire | 17,722 | Aug 7, 1990 | |
| Branham Fire | 9,566 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Tejon Fire | 7,657 | Aug 7, 1990 | |
| Steamboat Fire | 6,009 | Aug 7, 1990 | |
| Mattole Fire | 5,213 | Aug 8, 1990 | |
| Carbon Canyon Fire | 4,978 | ||
| Carbon Canyon Fire | 4,967 | Jun 27, 1990 |
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.