Santa Rosa Fire
The Santa Rosa Fire burned 2,836 acres in California, in 1997. MTBS dates its ignition to August 20, 1997.
- Size
- 2,836 acres
- Ignition
- August 20, 1997
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,836 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 34.634, -120.330.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 2,836 acres
- Area inside the final perimeter
- 3,074 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- August 20, 1997
- State
- California
- Agency
- Forest Service
- Unit
- CASBC
- Incident type
- Wildfire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3463412033019970820
- 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 199712
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Logan Fire | 49,490 | Aug 4, 1997 | Human |
| Fernandez Fire | 43,700 | Oct 24, 1997 | Human |
| Hopper Fire | 24,800 | Aug 5, 1997 | Human |
| Narrows Fire | 18,186 | Aug 13, 1997 | Human |
| Chocktaw Fire | 10,416 | Aug 19, 1997 | Human |
| Midway Complex | 7,485 | Jun 20, 1997 | Human |
| Pauba Fire | 7,231 | Aug 31, 1997 | Human |
| Baker Fire | 6,317 | Oct 13, 1997 | Human |
| Williams Fire | 5,745 | Sep 27, 1997 | Human |
| Jacks Fire | 5,693 | Aug 9, 1997 | Natural |
| Canyon 2 Fire | 5,200 | Jul 1, 1997 | Human |
| Lokern Two Fire | 4,566 |
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.