Wildfires of 1992

Unnamed Fire

1992CaliforniaWildfire

The Unnamed Fire burned 10,234 acres in California, in 1992. MTBS dates its ignition to August 21, 1992.

Size
10,234 acres
Ignition
August 21, 1992

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 10,234 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.927, -121.213.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
10,234 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
August 21, 1992
State
California
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3592712121419920821
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in California in 199212

FireAcresStartCause
Fountain Fire64,000Aug 20, 1992Human
Cleveland Fire24,580Sep 29, 1992Human
Gulch Fire18,000Aug 16, 1992Human
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
Mesa Fire4,200Apr 30, 1992Human

Every fire of 1992 California fire history

Nearby

Sources

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.