Wildfires of 1996

Oil Fire

1996CaliforniaWildfire

The Oil Fire burned 1,896 acres in California, in 1996. The record holds its year and its final perimeter, not its dates.

Size
1,896 acres

Map

The final perimeter from the Interagency Fire Perimeter History, 1,896 acres. Middle of the perimeter, 35.515, -118.959.

The record

Area inside the final perimeter
1,896 acres
State
California
Agency
Forest Service
Unit
CAKRN
Incident type
Wildfire

Other large fires in California in 199612

FireAcresStartCause
Fifty-Eight Fire106,668Aug 15, 1996Human
Fork Fire83,323Aug 11, 1996Human
Wild Fire25,620Oct 7, 1996Human
Ambrose Complex (Damon-Long) Fire23,398Aug 26, 1996Natural
Rogge Fire22,080Aug 13, 1996Natural
Marple Fire22,000Aug 26, 1996Human
Skyline Fire19,839Apr 27, 1996Human
Unnamed Fire19,244May 28, 1996
Panoche II Fire18,340Apr 27, 1996Human
Mercy Fire16,820Jun 18, 1996Human
Otay 322 Fire14,720Oct 22, 1996Human
Calabasas Fire13,190Oct 21, 1996Human

Every fire of 1996 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. 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.