Wildfires of 1992

Bravo Fire

1992CaliforniaWildfire

The Bravo Fire burned 1,974 acres in California, in 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to November 6, 1992.

Size
1,974 acres
Ignition
November 6, 1992

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,974 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 33.407, -117.522.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
1,974 acres
Area inside the final perimeter
2,024 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
November 6, 1992
State
California
Agency
CAL FIRE
Unit
CAMVU
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3337411754319921106
MTBS assessment
Initial

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 199212

FireAcresStartCause
Fountain Fire64,000Aug 20, 1992Human
Cleveland Fire24,580Sep 29, 1992Human
Gulch Fire18,000Aug 16, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire10,234Aug 21, 1992
Rainbow Fire8,800Aug 20, 1992Natural
Moccasin Fire8,000Aug 1, 1992Human
Middle Ridge Fire7,530Aug 22, 1992Human
Villa Fire6,700Sep 25, 1992Human
Burton Fire6,140Sep 25, 1992Human
Unnamed Fire5,337Aug 3, 1992
Barker Fire5,050Aug 20, 1992Human
La Paloma Fire4,800Aug 7, 1992Human

Every fire of 1992 California fire history

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.