Coyote Creek Fire
The Coyote Creek Fire burned 1,491 acres in California, in 1996. MTBS dates its ignition to October 3, 1996.
- Size
- 1,491 acres
- Ignition
- October 3, 1996
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,491 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 41.138, -123.878.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,491 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- October 3, 1996
- State
- California
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA4113312386819961003
- MTBS assessment
- Initial
Other large fires in California in 199612
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fifty-Eight Fire | 106,668 | Aug 15, 1996 | Human |
| Fork Fire | 83,323 | Aug 11, 1996 | Human |
| Wild Fire | 25,620 | Oct 7, 1996 | Human |
| Ambrose Complex (Damon-Long) Fire | 23,398 | Aug 26, 1996 | Natural |
| Rogge Fire | 22,080 | Aug 13, 1996 | Natural |
| Marple Fire | 22,000 | Aug 26, 1996 | Human |
| Skyline Fire | 19,839 | Apr 27, 1996 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 19,244 | May 28, 1996 | |
| Panoche II Fire | 18,340 | Apr 27, 1996 | Human |
| Mercy Fire | 16,820 | Jun 18, 1996 | Human |
| Otay 322 Fire | 14,720 | Oct 22, 1996 | Human |
| Calabasas Fire | 13,190 | Oct 21, 1996 | Human |
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.