Wildfires of 1998

Aera Fire

1998CaliforniaWildfire

The Aera Fire burned 2,062 acres in California, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to July 11, 1998.

Size
2,062 acres
Ignition
July 11, 1998

Map

The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 2,062 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 35.548, -118.974.

The record

Burned area mapped by MTBS
2,062 acres
Ignition (MTBS)
July 11, 1998
State
California
Incident type
Wildfire
MTBS fire identifier
CA3554811897419980711
MTBS assessment
Initial

Other large fires in California in 199812

FireAcresStartCause
Edna Fire28,164Oct 5, 1998Human
Piru Fire12,613Oct 18, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire11,141
Refuge Fire9,700Aug 4, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire8,950Jun 11, 1998
Unnamed Fire7,094Sep 2, 1998
Breck Fire7,000Jul 8, 1998Human
Middle Fire6,600Aug 29, 1998Human
Unnamed Fire6,284
Juniper Fire6,000Aug 31, 1998Natural
Unnamed Fire5,341Aug 6, 1998
Weirick Fire5,000Aug 31, 1998Natural

Every fire of 1998 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.