Burton Fire
The Burton Fire burned 6,140 acres in California, in 1992. It was discovered on September 25, 1992. The cause was recorded as equipment and vehicle use.
- Size
- 6,140 acres
- Discovered
- September 25, 1992
- Cause
- Human
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 6,157 acres. Point of origin as reported, 39.705, -121.721.
The record
- Reported final size
- 6,140 acres
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 6,157 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 5,915 acres
- Discovered
- September 25, 1992
- Cause
- Human, Equipment and vehicle use
- State
- California
- Reporting unit
- Butte Unit
- Agency
- CAL FIRE
- Unit
- CABTU
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3967412169519920925
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
- Fire occurrence record
- CDF_1992_54_2215_654
- Perimeter records
- 2 on file for this fire; the largest is shown
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
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fountain Fire | 64,000 | Aug 20, 1992 | Human |
| Cleveland Fire | 24,580 | Sep 29, 1992 | Human |
| Gulch Fire | 18,000 | Aug 16, 1992 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 10,234 | Aug 21, 1992 | |
| Rainbow Fire | 8,800 | Aug 20, 1992 | Natural |
| Moccasin Fire | 8,000 | Aug 1, 1992 | Human |
| Middle Ridge Fire | 7,530 | Aug 22, 1992 | Human |
| Villa Fire | 6,700 | Sep 25, 1992 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,337 | Aug 3, 1992 | |
| Barker Fire | 5,050 | Aug 20, 1992 | Human |
| La Paloma Fire | 4,800 | Aug 7, 1992 | Human |
| Mesa Fire | 4,200 | Apr 30, 1992 | Human |
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. Fire reports from Short, Karen C. 2022, Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014], 6th Edition, Forest Service Research Data Archive, doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6. 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.