Oat Mt Prescribed Fire
The Oat Mt Prescribed Fire burned 1,789 acres in California, in 1998. MTBS dates its ignition to September 17, 1998.
- Size
- 1,789 acres
- Ignition
- September 17, 1998
Map
The burned area boundary MTBS mapped from Landsat imagery, 1,789 acres. MTBS's point for the fire, 36.878, -119.259.
The record
- Burned area mapped by MTBS
- 1,789 acres
- Ignition (MTBS)
- September 17, 1998
- State
- California
- Incident type
- Prescribed fire
- MTBS fire identifier
- CA3687811925919980917
- MTBS assessment
- Extended
Other large fires in California in 199812
| Fire | Acres | Start | Cause |
|---|---|---|---|
| Edna Fire | 28,164 | Oct 5, 1998 | Human |
| Piru Fire | 12,613 | Oct 18, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 11,141 | ||
| Refuge Fire | 9,700 | Aug 4, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 8,950 | Jun 11, 1998 | |
| Unnamed Fire | 7,094 | Sep 2, 1998 | |
| Breck Fire | 7,000 | Jul 8, 1998 | Human |
| Middle Fire | 6,600 | Aug 29, 1998 | Human |
| Unnamed Fire | 6,284 | ||
| Juniper Fire | 6,000 | Aug 31, 1998 | Natural |
| Unnamed Fire | 5,341 | Aug 6, 1998 | |
| Weirick Fire | 5,000 | Aug 31, 1998 | Natural |
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.